Nouns (4)
barbarian
n. a member of an uncivilized people
beast, brute, wolf
n. a cruelly rapacious person
Verbs (2)
criticize harshly, criticize violently
v. criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (12)
wild, 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"
fierce, feral, ferocious
adj. wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
fell, 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"
Fuzzynyms (153)
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
animal, beast, brute, creature, animate being
n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
heathen, pagan, gentile, infidel
n. a person who does not acknowledge your god
savage, barbarian
n. a member of an uncivilized people
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"
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"
harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind
adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
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"
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"
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
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying
adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"
sadistic
adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another
cutthroat, sanguinary, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, homicidal, murderous
adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
poisonous, venomous, vicious
adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"
cutthroat, fierce, bowelless
adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
harmful, noxious
adj. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"
violent
adj. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death"
gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, violent, butcherly
adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
Synonyms (22)
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
unbroken
adj. not subdued or trained for service or use; "unbroken colts"
undomesticated
adj. not domesticated; "a few undomesticated horses left"
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"
brutal, cruel
adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
cold, insensate, cold-blooded, inhuman
adj. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
unfeeling, unkind, pitiless
adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings
Antonyms (4)
civilized
adj. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
tame, tamed
adj. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
humane
adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
savage
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