'Savage' definitions:
Definition of 'savage'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
adjective
adjective
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" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
adjective
Marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle" [syn: ferocious, fierce, furious, savage]
noun
A member of an uncivilized people [syn: savage, barbarian]
noun
verb
Attack brutally and fiercely
verb
Definition of 'Savage'
From: GCIDE
- Savage \Sav"age\, n.
- 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Savage'
From: GCIDE
- Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), v. t. To make savage. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf. --Southey. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Savage'
From: GCIDE
- Savage \Sav"age\ (?; 48), a. [F. sauvage, OF. salvage, fr. L. silvaticus belonging to a wood, wild, fr. silva a wood. See Silvan, and cf. Sylvatic.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts. [1913 Webster]
- Cornels, and savage berries of the wood. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. [1913 Webster]
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity? --E. D. Griffin. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized; unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel; inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See Ferocious. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'savage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- abuse,
- afflict,
- aggressive,
- aggrieve,
- agonize,
- animal,
- antagonistic,
- anthropophagite,
- anthropophagous,
- assault,
- atrocious,
- attack,
- baneful,
- barbarian,
- barbaric,
- barbarize,
- barbarous,
- bark,
- batter,
- battling,
- beast,
- beastly,
- befoul,
- beldam,
- bellicose,
- belligerent,
- berserk,
- berserker,
- bestial,
- bewitch,
- blemish,
- blight,
- bloodthirsty,
- bloody,
- bloody-minded,
- bomber,
- break,
- bruise,
- brutal,
- brutalize,
- brutalized,
- brute,
- brutish,
- buffet,
- burn,
- butcher,
- cannibal,
- cannibalistic,
- carry on,
- chafe,
- chauvinist,
- chauvinistic,
- check,
- chip,
- claw,
- coldhearted,
- combative,
- condemn,
- contentious,
- convulse,
- corrupt,
- crack,
- craze,
- crucify,
- cruel,
- cruel-hearted,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- deadly,
- death-bringing,
- deathful,
- deathly,
- defile,
- demon,
- demoniac,
- demoniacal,
- demonic,
- deprave,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- destroyer,
- destructive,
- devil,
- devilish,
- diabolic,
- disadvantage,
- disserve,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do violence to,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- do wrong to,
- doom,
- Draconian,
- dragon,
- enemy,
- enraged,
- envenom,
- excruciate,
- fatal,
- fell,
- feral,
- ferine,
- ferocious,
- fiend,
- fiendish,
- fiendlike,
- fierce,
- fighting,
- fighting mad,
- fire-eater,
- firebrand,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- full of fight,
- fuming,
- furious,
- fury,
- gall,
- gash,
- get into trouble,
- go on,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- Goth,
- Gothic,
- grim,
- gunsel,
- hammer,
- harass,
- hardnose,
- harm,
- harrow,
- harsh,
- hawkish,
- heartless,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- hellish,
- hex,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hopping mad,
- hostile,
- hothead,
- hotspur,
- hurt,
- hyena,
- ill-bred,
- ill-treat,
- ill-use,
- impair,
- impale,
- implacable,
- impolite,
- in a rage,
- incendiary,
- incise,
- infect,
- infernal,
- infuriate,
- infuriated,
- inhuman,
- inhumane,
- inimical,
- injure,
- internecine,
- jingo,
- jingoish,
- jingoist,
- jingoistic,
- jinx,
- kill by inches,
- 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,
- manhandle,
- martial,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- maul,
- menace,
- merciless,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- military,
- mishandle,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- monster,
- 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,
- rage,
- raging,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- ranting,
- rapacious,
- rape,
- rapist,
- rave,
- ravenous,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- relentless,
- rend,
- revolutionary,
- riot,
- rip,
- roar,
- roaring mad,
- rough,
- rough up,
- rough-and-ready,
- rude,
- rugged,
- ruin,
- run,
- rupture,
- ruthless,
- saber-rattling,
- sack,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- scald,
- scarify,
- scathe,
- scorch,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scrappy,
- scratch,
- scuff,
- 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,
- terror,
- terrorist,
- terrorize,
- threaten,
- tiger,
- tigress,
- torment,
- torture,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- traumatize,
- trigger-happy,
- troglodyte,
- troglodytic,
- truculent,
- ugly customer,
- unbroken,
- unchristian,
- uncivil,
- uncivilized,
- uncombed,
- uncontrolled,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- undomesticated,
- unfriendly,
- ungentle,
- unhuman,
- unkempt,
- unlicked,
- unmerciful,
- unpacific,
- unpeaceful,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unrelenting,
- unsubdued,
- untamed,
- vandal,
- vandalize,
- vicious,
- violate,
- violent,
- virago,
- virulent,
- vixen,
- voracious,
- warlike,
- warmongering,
- warring,
- wild,
- wild beast,
- wild man,
- witch,
- wolf,
- wolfish,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wreck,
- wrecker,
- wrench,
- wring,
- wrong,
- Young Turk
Savage-Guilford, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Savage-Guilford, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000) :
12918
Housing Units (2000) :
4943
Land area (2000) :
4.936666 sq. miles (12.785905 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.035417 sq. miles (0.091729 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
4.972083 sq. miles (12.877634 sq. km)
FIPS code :
70487
Located within :
Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location :
39.143607 N, 76.824616 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
20763
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Savage, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Savage, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000) :
21115
Housing Units (2000) :
6994
Land area (2000) :
15.912930 sq. miles (41.214297 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.605461 sq. miles (1.568137 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
16.518391 sq. miles (42.782434 sq. km)
FIPS code :
58738
Located within :
Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location :
44.756464 N, 93.355213 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
55378
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.