savagely

The word “savagely” has 3 syllables: sav-age-ly

It's pronounced as /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ.li/


What is synonym and antonym for savagely?

In the thesaurus, “savagely” has 42 synonyms and 22 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for savagely

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

Antonyms for savagely

  • benevolently
  • benignantly
  • charitably
  • clemently
  • compassionately
  • considerately
  • cordially
  • gently
  • graciously
  • humanely
  • kindly
  • leniently
  • lightly
  • lovingly
  • mercifully
  • mildly
  • softheartedly
  • softly
  • sympathetically
  • tenderly
  • tolerantly
  • understandingly

Meanings of savagely

  • adverb
    1. In a wild, uncontrolled, or savage manner.

Example Sentences

  • The boxer savagely knocked out his opponent in the first round.
  • The storm savagely tore through the small village.
  • She savagely criticized the politician's speech.
  • The wild dog savagely attacked the intruder.
  • His jokes were savagely hilarious but sometimes too harsh.

On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to savagely, such as: abusively, aggressively, assertively, benevolently, benignantly, brutally, brutishly.

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

Related Words

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

callously

  • abusively
  • aggressively
  • assertively
  • atrociously
  • barbarically
  • barbarously
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • calculatedly
  • cold-bloodedly
  • coldheartedly
  • coldly
  • cruelly
  • decidedly
  • deliberately
  • demoniacally
  • determinedly
  • diabolically
  • dispassionately
  • ferally
  • ferociously
  • fiercely
  • firmly
  • grimly
  • gruffly
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardheartedly
  • hardly
  • harshly
  • heartlessly
  • ill
  • in cold blood
  • indifferently
  • inexorably
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • intentionally
  • meanly
  • mercilessly
  • murderously
  • obdurately
  • oppressively
  • pitilessly
  • premeditatedly
  • relentlessly
  • remorselessly
  • resolutely
  • roughly
  • ruthlessly
  • savagely
  • severely
  • something fierce
  • something terrible
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • strongly
  • toughly
  • tyrannically
  • uncharitably
  • unemotionally
  • unfeelingly
  • unkindly
  • unmercifully
  • unrelentingly
  • unsparingly
  • viciously
  • with full intent

decidedly

  • absolutely
  • abusively
  • aggressively
  • assertively
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • by all means
  • callously
  • clearly
  • cold-bloodedly
  • considerably
  • decisively
  • definitely
  • determinedly
  • distinctly
  • downright
  • emphatically
  • extensively
  • far and away
  • firmly
  • flat out
  • for a fact
  • grimly
  • gruffly
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • harshly
  • head and shoulders
  • heartlessly
  • ill
  • in spades
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • mercilessly
  • no catch
  • no holds barred
  • no ifs ands or buts
  • no mistake
  • no strings attached
  • obdurately
  • of course
  • oppressively
  • pitilessly
  • positively
  • powerful
  • really
  • resolutely
  • right
  • roughly
  • ruthlessly
  • savagely
  • severely
  • significantly
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • straight out
  • strongly
  • substantially
  • sure
  • surely
  • terribly
  • terrifically
  • toughly
  • tyrannically
  • uncharitably
  • undoubtedly
  • unequivocally
  • unfeelingly
  • unmercifully
  • unmistakably
  • unquestionably
  • unsparingly
  • viciously
  • well

ill

  • Cimmerian
  • a wreck
  • abominable
  • abomination
  • abuse
  • abusively
  • abysmal
  • accident
  • achy
  • acrimonious
  • adverse
  • adversity
  • affection
  • afflicted
  • affliction
  • aggressively
  • ail
  • ailing
  • ailment
  • airsick
  • anathema
  • antagonistic
  • assertively
  • atrocious
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • attack
  • awful
  • bad
  • badness
  • baleful
  • balefulness
  • baneful
  • bastard
  • below par
  • black
  • bleak
  • blow
  • body blow
  • bout
  • brutal
  • brutally
  • brutishly
  • bug
  • bum
  • bummed
  • bush
  • bush-league
  • by no means
  • calamity
  • callously
  • cancer
  • canker
  • cantankerous
  • carsick
  • casualty
  • cataclysm
  • catastrophe
  • challenged
  • cheerless
  • cheesy
  • chill
  • circumstance
  • cloudy
  • coarse
  • cold
  • cold-bloodedly
  • comfortless
  • common
  • complaint
  • complication
  • condition
  • contagion
  • contagious
  • contagious disease
  • contagium
  • corruption
  • counterfeit
  • crappy
  • cross
  • cruddy
  • cruelty
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • curse
  • cut-rate
  • damage
  • damaging
  • damnable
  • dangerous
  • dark
  • darkening
  • darkness
  • deadly
  • debauchery
  • debilitated
  • debility
  • decay
  • decidedly
  • decrepit
  • decrepitude
  • defeat
  • defective
  • deficient
  • degeneracy
  • deleterious
  • deplorable
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • destiny
  • destruction
  • destructive
  • determinedly
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dim
  • dire
  • direful
  • disabled
  • disappointment
  • disaster
  • disastrous
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disease
  • diseased
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • disorder
  • disordered
  • disrespectful
  • dissatisfactory
  • distemper
  • distemperature
  • distress
  • disturbing
  • dizzy
  • doom
  • doomy
  • down
  • down with
  • dreadful
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • egregious
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • enormity
  • epidemic
  • evil
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • execrable
  • failure
  • fake
  • fatal
  • fate
  • faulty
  • feeble
  • feebleness
  • feeling awful
  • feeling rotten
  • feeling terrible
  • fever
  • feverish
  • fiendishness
  • firmly
  • fit
  • fizzle
  • flagrant
  • flawed
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • fragile
  • frail
  • frailness
  • from hunger
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gnarly
  • godforsaken
  • got the bug
  • gray
  • green
  • grey
  • grimly
  • gross
  • gruffly
  • halt
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hardly
  • hardship
  • harm
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • harshly
  • hateful
  • hazardous
  • heartlessly
  • heinousness
  • hopeless
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • hostile
  • hurt
  • hurtful
  • hypochondriac
  • hypochondriacal
  • ill-boding
  • ill-fated
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-starred
  • illness
  • immorality
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • impertinent
  • inadequate
  • inauspicious
  • incapacitated
  • indecency
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • infection
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inferior
  • infirm
  • infirmity
  • inhumanely
  • inhumanly
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injurious
  • injury
  • insensately
  • insensitively
  • insidious
  • insufficient
  • insult
  • invalid
  • jeopardizing
  • junky
  • killer
  • knock
  • lacking
  • laid low
  • lame
  • lameness
  • lesser
  • letdown
  • lethal
  • light-headed
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lot
  • lousy
  • low-grade
  • low-rent
  • lugubrious
  • malady
  • malaise
  • malefaction
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • matter
  • meager
  • meagre
  • mean
  • mediocre
  • menacing
  • mercilessly
  • minatory
  • misadventure
  • mischance
  • mischief
  • mischievous
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • miserly
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • mishap
  • morbid
  • morose
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nauseated
  • nauseous
  • near
  • never
  • niggardly
  • no
  • no way
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • none
  • nonsuccess
  • nothing
  • nothing doing
  • noway
  • nowhere
  • nowise
  • noxious
  • obdurately
  • odious
  • off
  • ominous
  • on no account
  • on sick list
  • oppressively
  • out of sorts
  • pain
  • paltry
  • parlous
  • pathetic
  • peaked
  • peaky
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • pest
  • pestiferous
  • pestilence
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • phoney
  • phony
  • pip
  • pitilessly
  • plague
  • plutonian
  • poisonous
  • poor
  • poorly
  • portentous
  • portion
  • prejudicial
  • punk
  • qualmish
  • queasy
  • queazy
  • queer
  • queerish
  • reprehensible
  • resolutely
  • risky
  • rot
  • rotten
  • roughly
  • rubbishy
  • ruinous
  • run down
  • run-down
  • running a temperature
  • ruthlessly
  • satanism
  • saturnine
  • savagely
  • scanty
  • scarcely
  • scurrility
  • scurrilous
  • scurrilousness
  • seasick
  • second-rate
  • seedy
  • sepulchral
  • setback
  • severely
  • shabby
  • shaky
  • sham
  • shoddy
  • short
  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickened
  • sickish
  • sickliness
  • sickly
  • sickness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • sinister
  • skimp
  • skimpy
  • sleazy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrow
  • sour
  • spare
  • spell
  • squalor
  • squeamish
  • star-crossed
  • sternly
  • stiffly
  • stingy
  • stinky
  • strongly
  • suboptimal
  • subpar
  • substandard
  • sucky
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surly
  • symptomatic
  • syndrome
  • taboo
  • tabu
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • toughly
  • tragedy
  • trashy
  • trial
  • tribulation
  • trouble
  • troubled
  • tyrannically
  • unacceptable
  • uncharitably
  • under par
  • under the weather
  • unfavorable
  • unfeelingly
  • unfortunate
  • unfriendly
  • ungracious
  • unhappiness
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthiness
  • unhealthy
  • unkind
  • unlucky
  • unmercifully
  • unpleasantness
  • unpromising
  • unpropitious
  • unsafe
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsound
  • unsoundness
  • unsparingly
  • unspeakable
  • unwell
  • unwellness
  • unwholesome
  • upset
  • useless
  • valueless
  • venomous
  • viciously
  • vile
  • vileness
  • villainous
  • villainy
  • wack
  • wanting
  • weak
  • weakly
  • weakness
  • wicked
  • wickedness
  • woe
  • woozy
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

keenly

  • abjectly
  • ably
  • actively
  • acutely
  • adroitly
  • agonizingly
  • alertly
  • angrily
  • animatedly
  • aptly
  • artfully
  • astutely
  • attentively
  • avidly
  • bitterly
  • blackly
  • boisterously
  • brilliantly
  • briskly
  • brutally
  • capably
  • carefully
  • cheerlessly
  • cleverly
  • closely
  • comprehendingly
  • coolly
  • crestfallenly
  • cruelly
  • cunningly
  • darkly
  • deceptively
  • deftly
  • dejectedly
  • deliberately
  • despairingly
  • despondently
  • discerningly
  • disconsolately
  • dismally
  • dispiritedly
  • distressfully
  • distressingly
  • dolefully
  • dolorously
  • dourly
  • downheartedly
  • drearily
  • eagerly
  • earnestly
  • energetically
  • enthusiastically
  • excitedly
  • exuberantly
  • facilely
  • fanatically
  • ferociously
  • fiercely
  • fixedly
  • forcibly
  • forlornly
  • foxily
  • frantically
  • furiously
  • gloomily
  • glumly
  • grievously
  • guilefully
  • hard
  • hardly
  • harshly
  • heavily
  • hurtfully
  • ill
  • impatiently
  • inconsolably
  • intellectually
  • intelligently
  • intensely
  • joylessly
  • judiciously
  • knowingly
  • knowledgeably
  • like fury
  • logically
  • low-spiritedly
  • lugubriously
  • madly
  • meanly
  • mirthlessly
  • miserably
  • morosely
  • mournfully
  • painfully
  • perspicaciously
  • pessimistically
  • piercingly
  • plaintively
  • poignantly
  • powerfully
  • prudently
  • rabidly
  • rancorously
  • rationally
  • reasonably
  • regretfully
  • relentlessly
  • reluctantly
  • resentfully
  • resourcefully
  • rhapsodically
  • rigorously
  • roughly
  • rowdily
  • ruefully
  • sadly
  • sagaciously
  • savagely
  • searchingly
  • sensibly
  • seriously
  • severely
  • sharply
  • shrewdly
  • skillfully
  • sky-high
  • slowly
  • slyly
  • smartly
  • somberly
  • sorely
  • sorrowfully
  • spiritedly
  • sprightly
  • steadily
  • stormily
  • strongly
  • suddenly
  • sullenly
  • trickily
  • tumultuously
  • turbulently
  • unhappily
  • uproariously
  • urgently
  • viciously
  • vigorously
  • violently
  • vivaciously
  • wailfully
  • warmly
  • watchfully
  • wildly
  • wisely
  • woefully
  • wretchedly
  • zealously

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