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Antonyms for savage
ˈsæv ɪdʒsav·age
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term savage.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, urbaneSynonyms:
atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cruel, inhuman, merciless, rude, uncivilized, uncouth, untamed
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
savage
Antonyms:
mild, docile, domesticated, tame, tractable, meek, timid, shrinking, cultivated, tamed, taught, civilized, educated, refined, christianized, polished, humane, generous, chivalrous, merciful, clement, forbearing, courtly, subdued, self-controlledSynonyms:
ferocious, ferine, wild, uncultivated, untamed, untaught, uncivilized, unpolished, rude, brutish, brutal, heathenish, barbarous, cruel, fierce, inhuman, truculent, pitiless, merciless, murderous, violent, malevolent
Princeton's WordNet
savage, barbariannoun
a member of an uncivilized people
Antonyms:
nonviolent, tamed, civilized, civilised, humane, tameSynonyms:
tyke, peasant, brute, wildcat, barbarian, beast, wolf, churl, boor, tikebeast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcatadjective
a cruelly rapacious person
Antonyms:
civilised, tame, nonviolent, civilized, humane, tamedSynonyms:
wildcat well, masher, skirt chaser, fauna, animal, animate being, beast, wildcat, brute, woman chaser, wolf, barbarian, creaturebarbarous, 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"
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humane, tamed, civilized, nonviolent, tame, civilisedSynonyms:
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, uncivilisedferal, ferine, savageadjective
wild and menacing
"a pack of feral dogs"
Antonyms:
nonviolent, civilised, humane, tame, civilized, tamedSynonyms:
wild, fierce, fell, furious, roughshod, barbaric, feral, cruel, barbarous, vicious, ferocious, barbarian, uncivilized, uncivilised, brutal, ferinebarbarian, 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, humaneSynonyms:
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, barbarousferocious, fierce, furious, savageverb
marked by extreme and violent energy
"a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Antonyms:
nonviolent, civilised, tamed, civilized, tame, humaneSynonyms:
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, wildsavageverb
attack brutally and fiercely
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civilised, humane, civilized, tamed, nonviolent, tamesavage, 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, civilizedSynonyms:
crucify, dun, bedevil, subdue, gibbet, shoot, blare, pillory, nail, mortify, rag, boom, knock down, frustrate, shell, torment, blast, smash
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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mirage
savage is a synonym of mirage
this girl is such a savage!
How to use savage in a sentence?
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
[ 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).
The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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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#1157 | nice | |
#4332 | taught | |
#6109 | elegant | |
#6740 | tender | |
#8164 | mild | |
#8685 | refined | |
#9248 | generous | |
#9302 | educated | |
#9513 | polished | |
#9792 | savage | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#14209 | cultured | |
#15979 | humane | |
#16723 | polite | |
#17957 | clement | |
#18889 | cultivated | |
#19860 | graceful | |
#21238 | shrinking | |
#22879 | tame | |
#24335 | civilized | |
#29487 | meek | |
#30789 | subdued | |
#31594 | merciful | |
#33672 | timid | |
#36305 | nonviolent | |
#44281 | domesticated | |
#53481 | civilised | |
#60442 | tamed | |
#62800 | tractable | |
#66707 | docile | |
#68486 | urbane | |
#78368 | courtly | |
#104601 | chivalrous | |
#196786 | christianized | |
#206101 | forbearing |
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