A polar bear in a zoo might look like an adorable giant stuffed animal, but if you met a hungry one in its native environment, it would seem more savage wild and fierce than cute.
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild;
Noun
a cruelly rapacious person
Noun
a member of an uncivilized people
Verb
criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Verb
attack brutally and fiercely
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
(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"
Adjective S.
wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
Adjective S.
marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
a.
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes
and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
a.
Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
a.
Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life;
savage manners.
a.
Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious;
inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
n.
A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
n.
A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
v. t.
To make savage.
Savage
Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.3.
What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?4.
Savage
Savage
Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; nature; wild;
A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught; uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
To make savage.
Usage Examples
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
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