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adj. wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"

tearing, fierce, 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"

wild, savage, barbarian, 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"

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"

uncivilized

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"

truculent, obstreperous, recalcitrant, unruly

adj. stubbornly defiant of authority or restraint: "an obstreperous almost mutinous crew"; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"; "a truculent speech against the new government"

wild, savage, barbarian, 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"

savage, fierce, feral, ferocious

adj. wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"

marauding, predatory, raiding

adj. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party"

rapacious, ravening, predatory, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous

adj. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"

wild, raging, angry, furious, tempestuous

adj. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"

riotous, turbulent, troubled, tumultuous, disorderly, disruptive

adj. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent

adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight; "bellicose young officers"; "a combative impulse"; "a contentious nature"

unbroken

adj. not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"

undomesticated

adj. not domesticated; "a few undomesticated horses left"

convulsive

adj. resembling a convulsion in being sudden and violent; "a convulsive rage"; "convulsive laughter"

wild, furious, unrestrained

adj. marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"

rowdy, tough, ruffianly

adj. violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"

terrorist

adj. characteristic of someone who employs terrorism (especially as a political weapon); "terrorist activity"; "terrorist state"

turbulent

adj. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

tame, tamed

adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"

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