savage

The word “savage” has 2 syllables: sav-age

It's pronounced as /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ/


What is synonym and antonym for savage?

In the thesaurus, “savage” has 256 synonyms and 76 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for savage along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for savage

  • abuse
  • affront
  • argumentative
  • asperse
  • assail
  • assassin
  • assaultive
  • atrocious
  • attack
  • bad-mouth
  • baddie
  • baddy
  • bandit
  • barbarian
  • barbaric
  • barbarous
  • bare-knuckle
  • bare-knuckled
  • bare-knuckles
  • bash
  • beast
  • beastly
  • beat up on
  • belabor
  • belittle
  • bellicose
  • belligerent
  • berate
  • bestial
  • blackguard
  • blaspheme
  • blast
  • blood-and-guts
  • bloodthirsty
  • bloody
  • bravo
  • brawly
  • brutal
  • brute
  • brutish
  • butcherly
  • cad
  • caitiff
  • castigate
  • catty
  • chastise
  • chide
  • chippy
  • coarse
  • cold-blooded
  • combative
  • con
  • confrontational
  • contentious
  • convict
  • crazed
  • criminal
  • criticize
  • crook
  • crude
  • cruel
  • culprit
  • curse
  • cutthroat
  • demoniac
  • desperado
  • despiteful
  • destructive
  • devil
  • devilish
  • diabolical
  • discordant
  • disparage
  • disputatious
  • draconian
  • draconic
  • evildoer
  • excoriate
  • execrate
  • feisty
  • fell
  • felon
  • feral
  • ferine
  • ferocious
  • fiend
  • fiendish
  • fierce
  • frantic
  • fulminate
  • furious
  • gangster
  • gladiatorial
  • goon
  • grim
  • gunman
  • harangue
  • harass
  • hard-hearted
  • hardhanded
  • harry
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • heartless
  • heathen
  • heathenish
  • heavy
  • heavy-handed
  • heel
  • hellish
  • homicidal
  • hoodlum
  • hooligan
  • hound
  • implacable
  • imprecate
  • in a state of nature
  • in-your-face
  • infernal
  • inhuman
  • inhumane
  • insult
  • ironhearted
  • jailbird
  • knave
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lawbreaker
  • libel
  • light into
  • loser
  • lowlife
  • lupine
  • malefactor
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • mean
  • meanie
  • meany
  • menacing
  • merciless
  • militant
  • miscreant
  • monster
  • murdering
  • murderous
  • nasty
  • natural
  • nazi
  • neandertal
  • neanderthal
  • no-good
  • noble savage
  • offender
  • oppressive
  • outlaw
  • perp
  • perpetrator
  • pitiless
  • potshot
  • primeval
  • primitive
  • primordial
  • profane
  • pugnacious
  • put down
  • quarrelsome
  • rabid
  • racketeer
  • raging
  • rapacious
  • rapscallion
  • rascal
  • ravening
  • ravenous
  • rebuke
  • red in tooth and claw
  • relentless
  • remorseless
  • reprimand
  • reprobate
  • revile
  • rogue
  • rough
  • rowdy
  • rude
  • ruffian
  • ruthless
  • sadistic
  • sail into
  • sanguinary
  • sanguine
  • scalawag
  • scallywag
  • scamp
  • scapegrace
  • scathe
  • scold
  • scoundrel
  • scrappy
  • serpent
  • sinner
  • slam
  • slander
  • slur
  • snake
  • spiteful
  • stinker
  • stonyhearted
  • take-no-prisoners
  • threatening
  • thug
  • tie into
  • tough
  • traduce
  • transgressor
  • trash
  • trespasser
  • truculent
  • turbulent
  • unbroken
  • uncivil
  • uncivilized
  • uncontrolled
  • uncouth
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undocile
  • undomesticated
  • unfeeling
  • unmodified
  • unrelenting
  • unrestrained
  • unsubdued
  • untamed
  • untrained
  • varlet
  • vicious
  • vilify
  • villain
  • villainess
  • vindictive
  • violent
  • viper
  • vituperate
  • voracious
  • wanton
  • warlike
  • whip
  • wild
  • wilding
  • wolfish
  • wretch
  • wrongdoer

Antonyms for savage

Meanings of savage

  • noun
    1. An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
    2. A defiant person.
  • verb
    1. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
    2. To criticise vehemently.
    3. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
    4. To make savage.
  • adjective
    1. Wild; not cultivated.
    2. Barbaric; not civilized.
    3. Fierce and ferocious.
    4. Brutal, vicious or merciless.
    5. Unpleasant or unfair.
    6. Great, brilliant, amazing.
    7. Nude; naked.

Example Sentences

  • The storm caused savage destruction across the coastline.
  • His savage remarks hurt everyone's feelings.
  • The lion launched a savage attack on its prey.
  • She responded with a savage wit that left everyone speechless.
  • The warriors fought with savage intensity to defend their land.

On this page you'll find 332 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to savage, such as: abuse, acclaim, affront, amiable, amicable, angel, argumentative.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abrading

  • abrasive
  • attritive
  • barking
  • biting
  • breaking down
  • breaking up
  • bruising
  • burning
  • caustic
  • chafing
  • chewing
  • clawing
  • coarse
  • contusing
  • corrading
  • corroding
  • cutting
  • decomposing
  • disintegrating
  • dissolving
  • eating
  • enflaming
  • erasing
  • eroding
  • erosion
  • erosive
  • excoriating
  • exquisite
  • fierce
  • filing
  • flaying
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • fraying
  • frazzling
  • fretting
  • galling
  • gnawing
  • grating
  • grazing
  • grim
  • grinding
  • gruff
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heavy-handed
  • honing
  • inflaming
  • intense
  • irritating
  • lacerating
  • nibbling
  • oppressive
  • peeling
  • pitiless
  • powerful
  • rasping
  • raspy
  • reducing
  • rough
  • roughened
  • roughening
  • rubbing
  • rubbing out
  • rude
  • rugged
  • sandblasting
  • sandpapering
  • savage
  • scarifying
  • scathing
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • scratching
  • scratchy
  • scuffing
  • severe
  • sharpening
  • shaving
  • skinning
  • stern
  • stiff
  • strong
  • tyrannic
  • tyrannical
  • ungentle
  • violent
  • wearing
  • wearing out
  • whetting

abuse

  • affront
  • asperse
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • attack
  • backbite
  • bad-mouth
  • bad-mouthing
  • bang up
  • bash
  • beat up
  • beat up on
  • belabor
  • belittle
  • belittlement
  • berate
  • billingsgate
  • blackguard
  • blackguardism
  • blame
  • blaspheme
  • blasphemy
  • blast
  • bleed
  • blow off
  • broadside
  • brutalize
  • bully
  • bung up
  • burn
  • calumniate
  • cap
  • castigate
  • castigation
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chastisement
  • cheat
  • chide
  • commercialize
  • commodify
  • corrupt
  • corruption
  • crime
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • curse
  • curses
  • cuss out
  • cut down
  • cut to the quick
  • cut up
  • damage
  • debase
  • debasement
  • decry
  • defamation
  • defame
  • defile
  • defilement
  • degrade
  • delinquency
  • deprave
  • derision
  • derogate
  • desecrate
  • desecration
  • destruction
  • diatribe
  • discount
  • disparage
  • disparagement
  • dissipate
  • do a number on
  • do an injustice to
  • dump on
  • epithet
  • excoriate
  • excoriation
  • execrate
  • execration
  • exhaust
  • expletive
  • exploit
  • exploitation
  • fault
  • fleece
  • fulminate
  • fulmination
  • give a black eye
  • harangue
  • harass
  • harm
  • harry
  • hose
  • hosing
  • hurl brickbat
  • hurt
  • ill-treat
  • ill-treatment
  • ill-usage
  • ill-use
  • impair
  • impairment
  • impose on
  • imprecate
  • imprecation
  • injure
  • injury
  • injustice
  • insult
  • insults
  • invective
  • jerk around
  • kick around
  • kicking around
  • knifing
  • knock
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • leverage
  • libel
  • light into
  • malediction
  • malevolence
  • maltreat
  • maltreatment
  • manhandle
  • manhandling
  • manipulate
  • mar
  • mess over
  • mess up
  • milk
  • minimize
  • misapplication
  • misapply
  • misconduct
  • misdeed
  • misemploy
  • misemployment
  • mishandle
  • mishandling
  • mismanage
  • mismanagement
  • mismanaging
  • mistreat
  • mistreatment
  • misusage
  • misuse
  • misutilization
  • molest
  • nag
  • obloquy
  • offend
  • offense
  • oppress
  • opprobrium
  • outrage
  • overburden
  • overcharge
  • overtax
  • overwork
  • persecute
  • perversion
  • pervert
  • pick on
  • pimp
  • polemic
  • pollute
  • pollution
  • potshot
  • profanation
  • profane
  • profanity
  • prostitute
  • prostitution
  • pushing around
  • put down
  • put-down
  • quinine
  • rag on
  • rebuke
  • reprimand
  • reproach
  • reproof
  • revile
  • revilement
  • ride
  • rip up
  • rough up
  • roughhouse
  • ruin
  • run down
  • sail into
  • sandbag
  • savage
  • scathe
  • scold
  • scolding
  • scurrility
  • shake up
  • signify
  • signifying
  • sin
  • skin
  • slam
  • slander
  • slap
  • sling mud
  • slur
  • smear
  • soak
  • sound
  • spoil
  • spoiling
  • squander
  • stick
  • swear at
  • swearing
  • swearword
  • taint
  • take apart
  • tear apart
  • tie into
  • tirade
  • torment
  • torture
  • total
  • trade on
  • traduce
  • trash
  • twist
  • upbraid
  • upbraiding
  • use
  • victimize
  • vilification
  • vilify
  • violate
  • violation
  • vitriol
  • vituperate
  • vituperation
  • walk on
  • waste
  • wax
  • whip
  • work
  • wrecking
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing
  • zing

abused

  • a slave to
  • abandoned
  • aberrant
  • abject
  • abnormal
  • affronted
  • archaic
  • arid
  • aspersed
  • assailed
  • attacked
  • bad-mouthed
  • bashed
  • beat up on
  • belabored
  • belittled
  • berated
  • big yawn
  • blackguarded
  • blah
  • blasphemed
  • blasted
  • bled
  • browbeaten
  • brutalized
  • bullied
  • burdened
  • burned
  • burnt
  • castigated
  • chastised
  • cheated
  • chid
  • chided
  • colorless
  • commercialized
  • commodified
  • common
  • commonplace
  • contorted
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cowed
  • criticized
  • crushed
  • cursed
  • dead
  • debased
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • depraved
  • desecrated
  • despairing
  • despoiled
  • destitute
  • deviant
  • deviating
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • disparaged
  • dispirited
  • distorted
  • distressed
  • downcast
  • downtrodden
  • dreary
  • driveling
  • dry
  • enslaved
  • excoriated
  • execrated
  • exploited
  • familiar
  • flat
  • fleeced
  • foreign
  • fulminated
  • grotesque
  • hackneyed
  • harangued
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • harried
  • have-not
  • heavy
  • hectored
  • helpless
  • ho-hum
  • hoary
  • hopeless
  • humdrum
  • hurt
  • ill-treated
  • ill-used
  • impaired
  • imprecated
  • injured
  • insipid
  • insulted
  • intimidated
  • jejune
  • jerked around
  • kicked around
  • kinky
  • lambasted
  • leveraged
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • lit into
  • longwinded
  • maltreated
  • manhandled
  • manipulated
  • messed over
  • mid
  • milked
  • misapplied
  • misemployed
  • misguided
  • mishandled
  • mismanaged
  • mistreated
  • misused
  • molested
  • monotonous
  • monstrous
  • oft-repeated
  • oppressed
  • ordinary
  • out-of-date
  • outraged
  • overburdened
  • overcharged
  • overworked
  • persecuted
  • perverted
  • pimped
  • plain
  • pointless
  • polluted
  • potshot
  • profaned
  • prolix
  • prosaic
  • prostituted
  • prosy
  • put down
  • ravished
  • rebuked
  • rejected
  • repetitious
  • repetitive
  • reprimanded
  • reviled
  • routine
  • run-of-the-mill
  • sailed into
  • sandbagged
  • savaged
  • scathed
  • scolded
  • scorned
  • sick
  • skinned
  • slammed
  • slandered
  • slurred
  • soaked
  • soporific
  • stale
  • stock
  • stuck
  • stupid
  • subservient
  • suppressed
  • tainted
  • taken advantage of
  • tame
  • tedious
  • tied into
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • took apart
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • traded on
  • traduced
  • trashed
  • trite
  • twisted
  • tyrannized
  • underfoot
  • unhealthy
  • unimaginative
  • uninspiring
  • unnatural
  • used
  • usual
  • usual thing
  • vapid
  • vicious
  • victimized
  • vilified
  • violated
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • vituperated
  • walked on
  • warped
  • whipped
  • wicked
  • worked
  • worn-out
  • wronged
  • wrought

abuses

  • affronts
  • asperses
  • aspersions
  • assails
  • attacks
  • bad-mouths
  • bashes
  • beats up on
  • belabors
  • belittlements
  • belittles
  • berates
  • billingsgates
  • blackguardisms
  • blackguards
  • blasphemes
  • blasphemies
  • blasts
  • bleeds
  • broadsides
  • brutalizes
  • bullies
  • burns
  • castigates
  • castigations
  • chastisements
  • chastises
  • cheats
  • chides
  • commercializes
  • commodifies
  • corruptions
  • corrupts
  • criticisms
  • criticizes
  • curses
  • damages
  • debasements
  • debases
  • degrades
  • desecrates
  • desecrations
  • destructions
  • diatribes
  • disparagements
  • disparages
  • epithets
  • excoriates
  • excoriations
  • execrates
  • execrations
  • expletives
  • exploits
  • fleeces
  • fulminates
  • fulminations
  • harangues
  • harasses
  • harms
  • harries
  • hurts
  • ill-treatments
  • ill-treats
  • ill-usages
  • ill-uses
  • imprecates
  • imprecations
  • injures
  • insults
  • invectives
  • jerks around
  • kicks around
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • leverages
  • libels
  • lights into
  • maledictions
  • maltreatments
  • maltreats
  • manhandles
  • manipulates
  • messes over
  • milks
  • misapplications
  • misapplies
  • misemployments
  • misemploys
  • mishandles
  • mismanagements
  • mismanages
  • mistreatments
  • mistreats
  • misusages
  • misuses
  • misutilizations
  • molests
  • obloquies
  • oppresses
  • opprobriums
  • outrages
  • overcharges
  • persecutes
  • perversions
  • perverts
  • pimps
  • polemics
  • potshots
  • profanations
  • profanes
  • profanities
  • prostitutes
  • prostitutions
  • put-downs
  • puts down
  • rebukes
  • reprimands
  • reproofs
  • revilements
  • reviles
  • ruins
  • sails into
  • sandbags
  • savages
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • scurrilities
  • skins
  • slams
  • slanders
  • slurs
  • soaks
  • sticks
  • swearwords
  • takes apart
  • ties into
  • tirades
  • torments
  • tortures
  • trades on
  • traduces
  • trashes
  • twists
  • uses
  • victimizes
  • vilifications
  • vilifies
  • violates
  • vitriols
  • vituperates
  • vituperations
  • walks on
  • whips
  • works
  • wrongs

abusively

  • aggressively
  • assertively
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • callously
  • cold-bloodedly
  • decidedly
  • determinedly
  • firmly
  • grimly
  • gruffly
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • harshly
  • heartlessly
  • ill
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • mercilessly
  • obdurately
  • oppressively
  • pitilessly
  • resolutely
  • roughly
  • ruthlessly
  • savagely
  • severely
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • strongly
  • toughly
  • tyrannically
  • uncharitably
  • unfeelingly
  • unmercifully
  • unsparingly
  • viciously

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