Meaning

Wild; not cultivated or tamed..

Definitions by Sense

1. Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
2. Barbaric; not civilized.
3. Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
4. Fierce and ferocious.
5. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
6. (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
7. (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
8. (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.

Example Sentences

a savage wilderness

a savage forest

The Englishman had extracted the heavy spear from the body of the lion, so that when he went into the forest to hunt that morning he had a feeling of much greater security than at any time since they had been cast upon the savage shore.

Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage / And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.

savage manners

I obſerv'd a Place where there had been a Fire made, and a Circle dug in the Earth, like a Cockpit, where it is ſuppoſed the Savage Wretches had ſat down to their inhumane Feaſtings upon the Bodies of their Fellow-Creatures.

What nation since the commencement of the Christian era ever arose from savage to civilized without Christianity?

It is so absurd to advance into the presence of savage royalty after the fashion of an Irishman driving a pig to market, for that is what we looked like, and the idea nearly made me burst out laughing then and there.

Word Forms

• more savage
• most savage
• savages
• salvage
• savaging
• savaged

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Use savage when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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