Synonyms of noble savage

noble savage

noun

as in barbarian

Related Words

• barbarian
• savage
• primitive
• heathen
• Neanderthal

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of noble savage

The canonical work of Edward Curtis established the tragic view and elegiac rhetoric of Native people as noble savages unassimilable to Progress and hence destined for cultural, if not biological, extinction. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025

The curtain was ornately embroidered with images of bears, onion domes, and noble savages untainted by logic. — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023

Native Americans have long been depicted in Hollywood films and television projects as either bloodthirsty barbarians or noble savages. — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023

Rather the novel presents Tarzan as Rousseau’s unspoiled child of nature, a literally noble savage free from the vices and corruption associated with advanced industrial society. — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020

In this sense, he is cast as a modernizer, turning noble savages into solid citizens. — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020

Whereas the book’s white characters are nuanced, Indian characters are reduced to dangerous adversaries or noble savages. — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2019