Savage (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.
  2. relating to or being a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.
  3. enraged or furiously angry, as a person.
  4. unpolished; rude: savage manners.
  5. wild or rugged, as country or scenery: savage wilderness.
  6. uncultivated; growing wild.
noun
  1. a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.
  2. a rude, boorish person.
  3. a member of a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.
verb (used with object), sav·aged, sav·ag·ing.
  1. to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate: numerous sheep savaged by dogs.
  2. to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate: a play savaged by the critics.
  3. to greatly weaken, damage, or harm: The age of automation and globalization, with companies searching for lower wages overseas, has savaged organized labor.
noun
  1. New Zealand statesman and labor leader: prime minister 1935–40.
  2. English poet.
adjective
  1. wild; untamed
  2. ferocious in temper; vicious
  3. uncivilized; crude
  4. (of peoples) nonliterate or primitive
  5. (of terrain) rugged and uncultivated
  6. far from human habitation
noun
  1. a member of a nonliterate society, esp one regarded as primitive
  2. a crude or uncivilized person
  3. a fierce or vicious person or animal
verb (tr)
  1. to criticize violently
  2. to attack ferociously and wound
noun
  1. Michael Joseph. 1872-1940, New Zealand statesman; prime minister of New Zealand (1935-40)
Savage (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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