savage

Meanings

Adjective

• Wild; not cultivated.
• Barbaric; not civilized.
• Fierce and ferocious.
• Brutal, vicious or merciless.
• Unpleasant or unfair.
• Great, brilliant, amazing.
• Nude; naked.

Noun

• A person living in a traditional, especially tribal, rather than civilized society, especially when viewed as uncivilized and uncultivated; a barbarian.
• A defiant person.

Verb

• To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
• To criticise vehemently.
• To attack with the teeth.
• To make savage.

Origin

• From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage, from Late Latin salvaticus, alteration of Latin silvaticus ("wild"; literally, "of the woods"), from silva.