Nouns (7)
savage
n. a member of an uncivilized people
tike, tyke, Goth, churl, peasant, boor
n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
Verbs (0)
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (3)
wild, savage, barbaric
adj. 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"
Fuzzynyms (103)
animal, beast, brute, creature, animate being
n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
philistine, lowbrow
n. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon
n. not very intelligent or interested in culture
native
n. a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person
subject, national
n. a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
natural
n. someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job"
citizen
n. a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
inhabitant, dweller, denizen
n. a person who inhabits a particular place
resident, occupant, occupier
n. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
alien, foreigner, outlander
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
beast, brute, wolf, savage
n. a cruelly rapacious person
yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon
n. not very intelligent or interested in culture
philistine, lowbrow
n. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
brogan, brogue, clodhopper, work shoe
n. a thick and heavy shoe
bucolic, peasant, provincial
n. a country person
rustic
n. an unsophisticated country person
pig, slob, sloven, slovenly person
n. a coarse obnoxious person
unknown, alien, stranger
n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
villain, scoundrel
n. a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
malcontent
n. a person who is discontented or disgusted
tearing, fierce, ferocious, knock-down-and-drag-out, knock-down-drag-out
adj. marked by extreme violence: "a ferocious beating"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound: "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"; "in a tearing rage"
savage, fierce, feral, ferocious
adj. wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
lowbrow, uncultivated
adj. characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes"
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
clownish, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
philistine, anti-intellectual
adj. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (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"
brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic
adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
animalistic
adj. of or pertaining to animalism
cutthroat, fierce, bowelless
adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
Synonyms (6)
primitive, crude, barbarous, gothic
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
preliterate, nonliterate
adj. used of a society that has not developed writing
Antonyms (1)
civilized
adj. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
barbarian
© Copyright 2009 Lexipedia. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by iSEEK.