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• (of an animal or force of nature) fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.

• "packs of savage dogs roamed the streets"

Similar: ferocious, fierce, wild, untamed, undomesticated, feral, predatory, ravening,

Opposite: tame,

• (of something bad or negative) very great; severe.

• "the decision was a savage blow for the town"

Similar: severe, crushing, devastating, crippling, terrible, awful, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, calamitous, ruinous, mortal, lethal, fatal,

• (of a person or group) primitive and uncivilized.

• "a savage race"

Similar: primitive, uncivilized, unenlightened, in a state of nature, heathen, wild, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, rude,

Opposite: civilized,

• a brutal or vicious person.

• "the mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages"

Similar: brute, beast, monster, barbarian, ogre, demon, sadist, animal,

• a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.

Similar: barbarian, wild man, wild woman, primitive, heathen, cannibal,

• a representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves.

• (especially of a dog or wild animal) attack ferociously and maul.

• "police are rounding up dogs after a girl was savaged"

Similar: maul, attack, tear to pieces, lacerate, claw, bite, mutilate, mangle, worry,

Origin: Middle English: from Old French sauvage ‘wild’, from Latin silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.