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Another word for savage

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Adjective

  1. Of or relating to wild animals

    See also:

    wild

  2. Not civilized

    See also:

    wild

    culture

  3. Showing or suggesting a disposition to be violently destructive without scruple or restraint

    See also:

    kind

  4. So intense as to cause extreme suffering

    See also:

    kind

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Another word for savage

Modifier

  1. Primitive

    Antonyms:

  2. Cruel

    See also:

    cruel

    Antonyms:

  3. Wild

    Antonyms:
Noun

  1. Native

  2. Brute

    See also:

    beast

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Sentence Examples

  • In war, they were savage and cruel; for war always makes men so.

  • You know I always was a savage, and now am even more so.

  • The banshee is perhaps connected with ancestral or house spirits; the Wild Huntsman, the Gabriel hounds, the Seven Whistlers, &c., are traceable to some actual phenomenon; but the great mass of British goblindom cannot now be traced back to savage or barbarous analogues.

  • One day word came that a savage wolf had been seen in the forest.

  • "A'Ran looked pretty savage," she said with a shiver.

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