Synonyms of the word

savage

• adj. Wild; not cultivated.
• adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
• adj. Fierce and ferocious.
• adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
• n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
• n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
• v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
• v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
• v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

aggressor

• n. The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an…

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

assailant

• n. Someone who attacks or assails another violently, or criminally; an attacker.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A hostile critic or opponent.
• adj. Assailing; attacking.

assault

• n. A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
• n. A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, for example words, arguments, appeals, and the like.
• n. (criminal law) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence,…
• n. (singular only, law) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
• n. (tort law) An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
• n. (singular only, law) The tort whose action is such an act.
• n. (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
• v. To attack, threaten or harass.

assaulter

• n. One who commits assault.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

attacker

• n. Someone who attacks.
• n. (soccer) One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal,…

barbarian

• adj. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
• n. (historical) a non-Greek or a non-Roman.
• n. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation;…
• n. (derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
• n. A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
• n. (derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
• n. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.

barbaric

• adj. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.

barbarous

• adj. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
• adj. uncivilized, uncultured.
• adj. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

beast

• n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
• n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
• n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
• n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
• n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
• n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
• n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
• v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
• adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

brutal

• adj. Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
• adj. Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
• adj. Harsh; unrelenting.
• adj. Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
• adj. (music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.

brute

• adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• adj. Crude, unpolished.
• adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
• adj. Inexplicable.
• n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
• v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

criticise

• v. To evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults.
• v. To find fault (with something).

criticize

• v. To find fault (with something).
• v. To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.

crucify

• v. To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
• v. To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
• v. (informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.

cruel

• adj. Not nice; mean; heartless.
• adj. (slang) Cool; awesome; neat.
• v. (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success).
• v. (Australia) To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive.

fell

• v. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
• v. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
• v. (sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
• n. A cutting-down of timber.
• n. The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat,…
• n. (textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
• n. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
• n. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
• n. (archaic outside Britain) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
• n. (archaic outside Britain) A wild field or upland moor.
• adj. Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
• adj. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
• adj. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.
• adv. Sharply; fiercely.
• n. Gall; anger; melancholy.
• n. (mining) The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

feral

• adj. Wild, untamed, especially of domesticated animals having returned to the wild.
• adj. (of a person) Contemptible, unruly, misbehaved.
• n. A domesticated animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living…
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative…

ferine

• adj. (now rare) Pertaining to wild, menacing animals; feral.

ferocious

• adj. Marked by extreme and violent energy.
• adj. Extreme or intense.

fierce

• adj. Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious or savage.
• adj. Resolute or strenuously active.
• adj. Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
• adj. (slang, Ireland, rural) Excellent, very good.
• adj. (slang, US) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
• adv. (slang, Ireland, rural) Extremely; very.

furious

• adj. Transported with anger or passion; raging; violent.
• adj. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

inhumane

• adj. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.

knock

• n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• n. An impact.
• n. (figuratively) criticism.
• n. (cricket) a batsman's innings.
• n. (automotive) Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by…
• n. (cycling) Synonym of hunger knock.
• v. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
• v. (transitive, dated) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To bump or impact.
• v. (colloquial) To denigrate, undervalue.
• v. (soccer) To pass, kick a ball towards another player.
• v. (slang, dated, Britain) To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

noncivilised

• adj. Alternative form of noncivilized.

noncivilized

• adj. Not civilized.

pillory

• n. A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
• v. (transitive) To put in a pillory.
• v. (transitive) To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
• v. (transitive) To criticize harshly.

primitive

• n. (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
• n. A member of a primitive society.
• n. A simple-minded person.
• n. (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex…
• n. (computing, programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a…
• n. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
• n. (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
• adj. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
• adj. Crude, obsolete.
• adj. (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
• adj. (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
• adj. (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type.

roughshod

• adj. (farriery) Of a horse: having hooves shod with calks or horseshoes that have projecting nails to prevent…
• adj. (by extension) Brutal or domineering.

uncivilised

• adj. (British spelling) alternative spelling of uncivilized.

uncivilized

• adj. Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
• adj. Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
• adj. Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.

untamed

• adj. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.

vicious

• adj. Violent, destructive and cruel.
• adj. Savage and aggressive.
• adj. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

violent

• adj. Involving extreme force or motion.
• adj. Involving physical conflict.
• adj. Likely to use physical force.
• adj. Intensely vivid.
• adj. (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
• n. (obsolete) An assailant.

wild

• adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
• adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
• adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
• adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
• adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
• adj. Enthusiastic.
• adj. Inaccurate.
• adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
• adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
• adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
• adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
• n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…

wildcat

• n. A cat that lives in the wilderness, specifically.
• n. (figuratively) A person who acts like a wildcat, (usually) a violent and easily-angered person or a sexually…
• n. (American football) An offensive formation with an unbalanced line and a snap directly to the running…
• n. (nautical) A wheel that can be adjusted so as to revolve either with or on the shaft of a capstan.
• n. (firearms) Clipping of wildcat cartridge.
• n. (uncommon) Clipping of wildcat strike, a strike undertaken without authorization from the relevant trade…
• n. (obsolete) Clipping of wildcat money, notes issued by a wildcat bank.
• adj. (usually pejorative) Of or concerning businesses operating outside standard or legitimate practice, especially.
• adj. (firearms) Of or concerning customized or hand-made cartridges.
• adj. Unauthorized by the proper authorities.
• v. To drill for oil in an area where no oil has been found before.

wolf

• n. The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.
• n. A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
• n. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note.
• n. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
• n. (figuratively) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
• n. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
• n. (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
• n. A willying machine.
• v. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.