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Antonyms for savage
ˈsæv ɪdʒsav·age

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. savage

    Whatever is not civilized is barbarian; barbaric indicates rude magnificence, uncultured richness; as, barbaric splendor, a barbaric melody. Barbarous refers to the worst side of barbarian life, and to revolting acts, especially of cruelty, such as a civilized man would not be expected to do; as, a barbarous deed. We may, however, say barbarous nations, barbarous tribes, without implying anything more than want of civilization and culture. Savage is more distinctly bloodthirsty than barbarous. In this sense we speak of a savage beast and of barbarous usage.

    Antonyms:
    civilized, courtly, cultured, delicate, elegant, graceful, humane, nice, polite, refined, tender, urbane

    Synonyms:
    atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cruel, inhuman, merciless, rude, uncivilized, uncouth, untamed

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Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 4 votes

  1. savage, barbariannoun

    a member of an uncivilized people

    Antonyms:
    nonviolent, tamed, civilized, civilised, humane, tame

    Synonyms:
    tyke, peasant, brute, wildcat, barbarian, beast, wolf, churl, boor, tike

  2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatadjective

    a cruelly rapacious person

    Antonyms:
    civilised, tame, nonviolent, civilized, humane, tamed

    Synonyms:
    wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, wildcat, brute, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creature

  3. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective

    (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"

    Antonyms:
    humane, tamed, civilized, nonviolent, tame, civilised

    Synonyms:
    wild, uncivilized, fierce, deplorable, reprehensible, fell, beastly, unrelenting, venomous, criminal, brute(a), condemnable, roughshod, barbaric, evil, feral, cruel, poisonous, barbarous, vicious, furious, ferocious, barbarian, heavy-handed, brutish, bestial, brutal, ferine, uncivilised

  4. feral, ferine, savageadjective

    wild and menacing

    "a pack of feral dogs"

    Antonyms:
    nonviolent, civilised, humane, tame, civilized, tamed

    Synonyms:
    wild, fierce, fell, furious, roughshod, barbaric, feral, cruel, barbarous, vicious, ferocious, barbarian, uncivilized, uncivilised, brutal, ferine

  5. barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wildadjective

    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"

    Antonyms:
    tame, tamed, nonviolent, civilized, civilised, humane

    Synonyms:
    raging, brutal, gaga, violent, dotty, untamed, unfounded, ferocious, fierce, cruel, tempestuous, fell, roughshod, ferine, godforsaken, uncivilised, hazardous, uncivilized, waste, baseless, risky, angry, idle, wild, fantastic, groundless, feral, vicious, crazy, raving mad, barbarian, barbaric, furious, unwarranted, barbarous

  6. ferocious, fierce, furious, savageverb

    marked by extreme and violent energy

    "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"

    Antonyms:
    nonviolent, civilised, tamed, civilized, tame, humane

    Synonyms:
    angered, rough, trigger-happy, uncivilized, barbarous, angry, cutthroat, infuriated, tempestuous, furious, raging, violent, fell, fierce, barbaric, feral, cruel, enraged, vehement, maddened, ferocious, roughshod, tearing, boisterous, barbarian, uncivilised, bowelless, vicious, brutal, ferine, wild

  7. savageverb

    attack brutally and fiercely

    Antonyms:
    civilised, humane, civilized, tamed, nonviolent, tame

    Synonyms:
    pillory, crucify, blast

  8. savage, blast, pillory, crucifyverb

    criticize harshly or violently

    "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

    Antonyms:
    nonviolent, tamed, tame, civilised, humane, civilized

    Synonyms:
    crucify, dun, bedevil, subdue, gibbet, shoot, blare, pillory, nail, mortify, rag, boom, knock down, frustrate, shell, torment, blast, smash

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. savageadjective

    Synonyms:
    uncivilized, barbarous, ferocious, ravenous, fierce, untamed, brutal, fell, truculent, implacable, atrocious, ferocious, inhuman

  2. savagenoun

    Synonyms:
    barbarian, cannibal

Editors Contribution2.0 / 4 votes

  1. mirage

    savage is a synonym of mirage

    this girl is such a savage!

    Submitted by anonymous on November 17, 2019  

How to use savage in a sentence?

  1. George Santayana:

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

  2. John Garcia:

    [ I was trying to escape from ] the pain, the misery. The stress. The pressure. You name it. I was just trying to escape. That was my escape route. Not a healthy choice, but it was mainly to numb myself … The mere fact of seeing all the dead bodies, going to autopsies and doing the death notifications during the wee hours of the morning. Oscar-winning actor Actor Haing Ngor. who survived the savage horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, was shot to death outside Actor Haing Ngor apartment. ( Oxygen).

  3. Persian:

    The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.

  4. William Congreve:

    Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  5. Plato:

    Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

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