savage

savage is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
2. adjective. Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
3. adjective. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.
4. adjective. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
5. noun. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
6. noun. A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
7. transitive verb. To make savage.
8. noun. a cruelly rapacious person

   Synonyms: beast, brute, wildcat, wolf

9. noun. a member of an uncivilized people

   Synonyms: barbarian

10. verb. criticize harshly or violently

    "The press savaged the new President"

    "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

    Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory

11. verb. attack brutally and fiercely
12. adjective. without civilizing influences-Margaret Meade

    "barbarian invaders"

    "barbaric practices"

    Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild

13. adjective. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

    "a barbarous crime"

    "brutal beatings"

    Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious

14. adjective. wild and menacing

    "a pack of feral dogs"

    Synonyms: feral, ferine

15. adjective. marked by extreme and violent energy

    "a ferocious beating"

    "fierce fighting"

    Synonyms: ferocious, fierce, furious

Synonyms

beast, brute, wildcat, wolf, barbarian, blast, crucify, pillory, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild, barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in savage:

agaves

Common word forms

savaged, savager, savages, savagely, savagest, savaging, savageness

Words from these letters

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