savage
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈsævɪdʒ/
- Slur
- The explorers discovered a savage landscape, untouched by modern civilization.
- savage people
- savage and primitive
- savage and barbaric
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Watch on YouTubeI don't want to be like these awful, savage places.
- I don't want to be like these awful, savage places.
- And the kicker was, they themselves were also to be the deciders of who is savage and therefore not deserving of rights.
- But then again, we've seen that it's wrong to think of most of the invading peoples of the period we've been discussing as just totally savage Raiders.
Examples
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Like many of his contemporaries, Bacon saw humans in the state of nature as savage and barbaric.
Academic text (1999) -
A place from a bygone age, of savage and awesome beauty.
Fiction book (1991) -
The Ring of Fire came, and they entered a new and very savage world.
Fiction book (2001) -
Savage aliens from the savage future.
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We know how savage your tribe is, so we wanna cooperate and do anything you want.
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It is a savage place.
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They're as savage now as they ever were.
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You know, I was lost in the dense, savage hush wood of the night.
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For what we consider to be industrial civilization, I would say is extraordinarily uncivilized, actually quite savage.
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When the missionary realizes what has transpired, he declares the Fang the most savage race in all of Africa.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
430
1.0
Living in a natural state and not tamed by people
63
6.3
Extremely cruel and violent with no respect for people
14
5.9
Showing little social or cultural development and often acting rude and violent
11
7.6
Not civilized and often rude in behavior
4
8.4
Not having modern culture or polite ways
Not able to learn through education or contact with others
Antonyms
101
3.7
Advanced in social, cultural and technological development with order and refinement
Compounds
How Civilized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Savage comes from Latin silva 'wood' via Old French sauvage, and once described people or places 'from the woods' outside towns. That's why it was used for customs or conditions seen as primitive or uncivilized.