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savage
Synonyms and Antonyms of savage
- What kind of savage would do such a thing?
- compared their visitors to savages
savage
Synonyms and Antonyms of savage
- Tarzan is usually portrayed as a noble but savage warrior of the jungle.
barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, Neanderthal (or Neandertal), rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild
- a savage attack on a helpless person
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
red in tooth and claw
- savage beasts that seemed threatening to the tourists
- a novel about schoolboys who become savage while marooned on an island
argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, belligerent, brawly, combative, confrontational, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, scrappy, warlike
bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), blood-and-guts, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners
bestial, brute, inhuman, inhumane
heartless, implacable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, unrelenting, wanton
bloodthirsty, bloody, homicidal, murdering, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
Synonym Discussion of savage
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- fierce warriors
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- a ferocious dog
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- barbarous treatment of prisoners
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- a savage criminal
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- the cruel jokes of schoolboys
savage
Synonyms and Antonyms of savage
- Book reviewers mercilessly savaged his latest novel.
beat up on, light into, sail into, tie into
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