Savage

//ˈsævɪd͡ʒ//

Synonyms for "savage" (461 found)

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Closest matches (93)

Strong matches (138)

damage deadly death dealing death-bringing deathful deathly defile demon demoniac demoniacal demonic deprave despoil destroy destroyer destructive devastating devil devilish diabolic

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Verb(7 words)

denounce deplore deprecate drag fault get down give someone a speaking to

Adjective(6 words)

fell feral ferine ferocious fierce furious

Related words (230)

kill-crazy killer killing knock about lacerate lancinate lay waste lethal loot macerate mad dog madcap mafioso maim make mincemeat of malign malignant maltreat man eater man-eater

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manhandle martial martyr martyrize maul menace merciless militant militaristic military mishandle mistreat molest monster monstrous mortal mug mugger murderous mutilate neanderthal nihilist noncivilized offensive outlandish outrage pernicious persecute pierce pillage pitiless play havoc with play hob with poison pollute prejudice primeval primitive pugnacious puncture punish quarrelsome rabid rack racking rage raging ramp rampage rant ranting rapacious rape rapist rave ravenous raving raving mad relentless remorseless rend revolutionary riot rip roar roaring mad rough rough up rough-and-ready roughshod rude rugged ruin run rupture ruthless saber-rattling sack sadistic sanguinary sanguineous satanic scald scarify scathe scathing scorch scotch scrape scrappy scratch scuff severe shark sharkish she-wolf skin slash slaughter slavering slit soldierlike soldierly sow chaos spitfire sprain stab stick storm storming strain subhuman taint tameless tartarean tear tear around termagant terrible terror terrorist terrorize threaten tiger tigress torment torture tough tough guy traumatize trigger happy trigger-happy troglodyte troglodytic truculent tumultuous ugly customer unbroken unchristian uncivil uncivilised uncivilized uncombed uncontrolled uncouth uncultivated uncultured undomesticated unfriendly ungentle unhuman unkempt unlicked unmerciful unpacific unpeaceful unpolished unrefined unrelenting unsubdued untamed vandal vandalize venomous vicious violate violent virago virulent vixen voracious warlike warmongering warring wild wild beast wild man witch wolf wolfish wound wreak havoc wreak havoc on wreck wrecker wrench wring wrong young turk

Verb(13 words)

lambaste pan pillory put someone in their place rebuke reproach reprove slam slate tick off upbraid vilify vituperate

Noun(3 words)

pagan wildcat wolf

Adjective(5 words)

roughshod uncivilised uncivilized vicious wild

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

14 entries

aggressor assail assailant assault assaulter attack attacker criticise criticize knock pick apart primitive primitive person set on

Synonyms

5 entries

beast ferine ferocious roughshod uncivilised

Related terms

2 entries

noble savage sylvan

derived

16 entries

Savage Mountain Savage River Savagean antisavage demi-savage postsavage savagedom savagely savageness savagery savagess savagism savagize semisavage sweet savage romance unsavage

distinct from

1 entries

civilized

has context

4 entries

ireland pejorative slang uk

is a

1 entries

primitive

manner of

2 entries

assail knock

related to

27 entries

amazing assault attack barbarian barbaric brilliant brutal civilized criticise cultivated defiant feral ferocious ferociously fierce great

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similar

6 entries

inhumane noncivilised noncivilized untamed violent wild

Translations

239 translations across 45 languages.

Arabic

4 entries

مُتَوَحِّش adj (wild, not cultivated)
هَمَجِيّ adj (barbaric, not civilized)
مُتَوَحِّش noun (uncivilized or feral person)
هَمَجِيّ noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Armenian

4 entries

վայրագ adj (fierce and ferocious)
վայրագ adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
վայրենի adj (barbaric, not civilized)
վայրի adj (wild, not cultivated)

Belarusian

4 entries

дзі́кі adj (wild, not cultivated)
дзіку́нскі adj (wild, not cultivated)
дзіку́н noun (uncivilized or feral person)
дзіку́нка noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Bulgarian

4 entries

безпоща́ден adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
брута́лен adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
див adj (wild, not cultivated)
дива́к noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Catalan

4 entries

salvatge adj (wild, not cultivated)
salvatge adj (barbaric, not civilized)
salvatge adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
salvatge noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

دڕندە adj (fierce and ferocious)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

殘暴 /残暴 adj (wild, not cultivated)
野蠻人 /野蛮人 noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Czech

3 entries

divoký adj (wild, not cultivated)
divoch noun (uncivilized or feral person)
divoška noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Dutch

4 entries

barbaars adj (wild, not cultivated)
barbaars adj (barbaric, not civilized)
onbeschaafd adj (barbaric, not civilized)
onbeschoft adj (barbaric, not civilized)

Esperanto

3 entries

feroca adj (fierce and ferocious)
sovaĝa adj (wild, not cultivated)
sovaĝa adj (fierce and ferocious)

Finnish

4 entries

julma adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
raaka adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
raakalaismainen adj (barbaric, not civilized)
sivistymätön adj (barbaric, not civilized)

French

3 entries

barbare adj (barbaric, not civilized)
féroce adj (fierce and ferocious)
sauvage noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Georgian

4 entries

არაცივილური adj (barbaric, not civilized)
ბარბაროსული adj (barbaric, not civilized)
ველური adj (wild, not cultivated)
სასტიკი adj (fierce and ferocious)

German

4 entries

barbarisch adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
grausam adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
rasend adj (fierce and ferocious)
roh adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Greek

4 entries

άγριος adj (wild, not cultivated)
άγριος adj (barbaric, not civilized)
άγριος adj (fierce and ferocious)
άγριος adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Hindi

4 entries

क्रूर adj (fierce and ferocious)
क्रूर adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
जंगली adj (wild, not cultivated)
निर्दयी adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Hungarian

4 entries

barbár adj (barbaric, not civilized)
brutális adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
civilizálatlan adj (barbaric, not civilized)
elvetemült adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Ido

4 entries

sovaja adj (wild, not cultivated)
sovaja adj (barbaric, not civilized)
sovaja adj (fierce and ferocious)
sovaja adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Indonesian

1 entries

biadab adj (barbaric, not civilized)

Ingrian

3 entries

diikkoi adj (wild, not cultivated)
metsälliin adj (barbaric, not civilized)
villi adj (wild, not cultivated)

Interlingua

1 entries

salvage adj (wild, not cultivated)

Italian

4 entries

brutale adj (fierce and ferocious)
crudele adj (fierce and ferocious)
crudele adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
feroce adj (fierce and ferocious)

Japanese

1 entries

野蛮人 noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Korean

1 entries

야만인 noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Latin

4 entries

atrōx adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
barbarus adj (wild, not cultivated)
barbarus adj (barbaric, not civilized)
barbarus adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Macedonian

4 entries

беспо́штеден adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
ди́вјачки adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
дивјачки adj (wild, not cultivated)
дивјачки adj (barbaric, not civilized)

Nandi

1 entries

korom noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Norwegian

4 entries

barbarisk adj (barbaric, not civilized)
brutal adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
grusom adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
rasende adj (fierce and ferocious)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

villmann noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

آزولو adj (fierce and ferocious)
خشین adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
وحشی adj (fierce and ferocious)

Persian

1 entries

شرزه adj (fierce and ferocious)

Polish

4 entries

barbarzyński adj (barbaric, not civilized)
bestialski adj (fierce and ferocious)
bestialski adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
bezlitosny adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Portuguese

4 entries

selvagem adj (wild, not cultivated)
selvagem adj (barbaric, not civilized)
selvagem adj (fierce and ferocious)
selvagem adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Russian

4 entries

беспоща́дный adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
ва́рварский adj (barbaric, not civilized)
ди́кий adj (wild, not cultivated)
дика́рский adj (wild, not cultivated)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

divljàkinja noun (uncivilized or feral person)
divljàkuša noun (uncivilized or feral person)
dìvljāk noun (uncivilized or feral person)
дивља̀киња noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Sicilian

3 entries

sarbaggiu adj (wild, not cultivated)
sarbaggiu adj (barbaric, not civilized)
sarbaggiu adj (fierce and ferocious)

Slovak

3 entries

divoký adj (wild, not cultivated)
divoch noun (uncivilized or feral person)
divoška noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Slovene

3 entries

divji adj (wild, not cultivated)
divjak noun (uncivilized or feral person)
divjakinja noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Spanish

3 entries

salvaje adj (wild, not cultivated)
salvaje adj (barbaric, not civilized)
salvaje adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Swedish

4 entries

barbarisk adj (barbaric, not civilized)
brutal adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
grym adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)
ociviliserad adj (barbaric, not civilized)

Thai

4 entries

ป่าเถื่อน adj (wild, not cultivated)
ป่าเถื่อน adj (barbaric, not civilized)
ป่าเถื่อน adj (fierce and ferocious)
ป่าเถื่อน adj (brutal, vicious or merciless)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

bus kanaka noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Turkish

2 entries

barbar adj (barbaric, not civilized)
vahşi adj (wild, not cultivated)

Ukrainian

4 entries

ди́кий adj (wild, not cultivated)
дику́нський adj (wild, not cultivated)
жорсто́кий adj (fierce and ferocious)
дику́н noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Vietnamese

2 entries

mọi rợ adj (barbaric, not civilized)
người dã man noun (uncivilized or feral person)

Sample sentences

48 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

Source: tatoeba (19576)

A savage tribe lived there in those days.

Source: tatoeba (44723)

There are still some savage tribes on that island.

Source: tatoeba (44755)

The primitive man was frightened at the sight of a savage beast.

Source: tatoeba (239460)

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