Nouns (2)
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savage, barbarian
n. a member of an uncivilized people
Verbs (1)
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savage
v. attack brutally and fiercely
Adverbs (0)
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Adjectives (16)
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feral, ferine, savage
adj. wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
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"
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
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 (122)
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animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Philistine
n. a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon
n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
native
n. indigenous plants and animals
national, subject
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
denizen
n. a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"
occupier
n. a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country
foreigner, alien, noncitizen, outlander
n. a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
Wolf, Hugo Wolf
n. Austrian composer (1860-1903)
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
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"
knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out
adj. extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"
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"
recalcitrant
adj. marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"
harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind
adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
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"
coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
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"
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish
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
adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people
ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish
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
homicidal, murderous
adj. characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"
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"
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"
crimson, red, violent
adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out
adj. extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"
feral, ferine, savage
adj. wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"
coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar
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, lowbrowed, uncultivated
adj. characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes"
ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish
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
adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
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"
cannibalic
adj. marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage
animalistic
adj. of or pertaining to animalism
cutthroat, fierce, bowelless
adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
Synonyms (12)
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unplowed, unploughed, unbroken
adj. (of farmland) not plowed; "unplowed fields"; "unbroken land"
undomesticated
adj. not domesticated; "a few undomesticated horses left"
cannibalic
adj. marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage
brutal
adj. disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
inhuman
adj. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
pitiless, unkind
adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings
barbarous
adj. primitive in customs and culture
preliterate, nonliterate
adj. used of a society that has not developed writing
Antonyms (4)
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tamed
adj. brought from wildness; "the once inhospitable landscape is now tamed"
humane
adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
civilized, civilised
adj. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
savage
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