sav·age  /ˈsævɪdʒ/

noun

1. a member of an uncivilized people

synset: savage, barbarian

2. a cruelly rapacious person

synset: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat

verb

1. attack brutally and fiercely

synset: savage

2. criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

synset: savage, blast, pillory, crucify

adj

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

synset: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

2. wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"

synset: feral, ferine, savage

3. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"

synset: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

4. marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"

synset: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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