savages

The word “savages” has 3 syllables: sav-ag-es

It's pronounced as /ˈsæv.ɪdʒ.ɪz/


What is synonym and antonym for savages?

In the thesaurus, “savages” has 129 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for savages

  • abuses
  • affronts
  • asperses
  • assails
  • assassins
  • attacks
  • bad-mouths
  • baddies
  • bandits
  • barbarians
  • bashes
  • beasts
  • beats up on
  • belabors
  • belittles
  • berates
  • blackguards
  • blasphemes
  • blasts
  • bravoes
  • bravos
  • brutes
  • cads
  • caitiffs
  • castigates
  • chastises
  • chides
  • cons
  • convicts
  • criminals
  • criticizes
  • crooks
  • culprits
  • curses
  • cutthroats
  • desperadoes
  • desperados
  • devils
  • disparages
  • evildoers
  • excoriates
  • execrates
  • felons
  • fiends
  • fulminates
  • gangsters
  • goons
  • gunmen
  • harangues
  • harasses
  • harries
  • heathen
  • heathens
  • heavies
  • heels
  • hoodlums
  • hooligans
  • hounds
  • imprecates
  • insults
  • jailbirds
  • knaves
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lawbreakers
  • libels
  • lights into
  • losers
  • lowlifes
  • lowlives
  • malefactors
  • meanies
  • miscreants
  • monsters
  • nazis
  • neanderthals
  • no-goods
  • noble savages
  • offenders
  • outlaws
  • perpetrators
  • perps
  • potshots
  • primitives
  • profanes
  • puts down
  • racketeers
  • rapscallions
  • rascals
  • rebukes
  • reprimands
  • reprobates
  • reviles
  • rogues
  • roughs
  • rowdies
  • ruffians
  • sails into
  • scalawags
  • scallywags
  • scamps
  • scapegraces
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • scoundrels
  • serpents
  • sinners
  • slams
  • slanders
  • slurs
  • snakes
  • stinkers
  • thugs
  • ties into
  • toughs
  • traduces
  • transgressors
  • trash
  • trashes
  • trespassers
  • varlets
  • vilifies
  • villainesses
  • villains
  • vipers
  • vituperates
  • whips
  • wretches
  • wrongdoers

Antonyms for savages

Meanings of savages

  • 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.

Example Sentences

  • The invading army treated the locals as savages, showing no mercy.
  • The movie portrayed the pirates as ruthless savages of the sea.
  • The stranded explorers feared being attacked by unknown savages.
  • The ancient text described the savages who lived beyond the mountains.
  • Some people unfairly labeled the rebels as savages without understanding their struggle.

On this page you'll find 139 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to savages, such as: abuses, acclaims, affronts, angels, asperses, assails, assassins.

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

Related Words

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

attacks

  • abuse
  • abuses
  • access
  • accesses
  • addresses
  • advance
  • affronts
  • aggress
  • aggression
  • aggressions
  • agitations
  • ailment
  • air raids
  • ambuscades
  • ambush
  • ambushes
  • approaches
  • asperses
  • assail
  • assailing
  • assailment
  • assails
  • assault
  • assaults
  • attempts
  • bad-mouths
  • barrage
  • barrages
  • bash
  • bashes
  • bat
  • batters
  • bean
  • beat
  • beats up on
  • belabors
  • beleaguers
  • belittles
  • belligerence
  • berate
  • berates
  • beset
  • besets
  • besiege
  • besieges
  • biff
  • blackguards
  • blame
  • blasphemes
  • blast
  • blasts
  • blister
  • blitz
  • blitzes
  • blitzkrieg
  • blitzkriegs
  • boff
  • bombard
  • bombardments
  • bombards
  • bombings
  • bombs
  • boot
  • bop
  • bout
  • bouts
  • brain
  • brainstorms
  • breakdown
  • breakdowns
  • breakthroughs
  • buckle down
  • buffets
  • bum-rushes
  • bushwhacks
  • bust
  • calumny
  • cannonades
  • cannons
  • cases
  • castigates
  • censure
  • charge
  • charges
  • chastises
  • chides
  • chop down
  • clip
  • clock
  • club
  • collapses
  • combat
  • combativeness
  • convulsion
  • convulsions
  • cook
  • counter-aggressions
  • counter-assaults
  • counter-attacks
  • counter-strikes
  • counteraggressions
  • counterassaults
  • counterattacks
  • counteroffensives
  • counterstrikes
  • coups de main
  • criticism
  • criticize
  • criticizes
  • curses
  • deal with
  • defilement
  • denigration
  • denunciation
  • descents
  • dirty deed
  • disease
  • disparages
  • dive into
  • drive
  • eclampsias
  • encounter
  • encroachment
  • envelopments
  • envelops
  • excoriates
  • execrates
  • faces
  • failure
  • fit
  • fits
  • flanks
  • flies at
  • foray
  • forays
  • frenzies
  • fulminates
  • fusillades
  • goes at
  • hails
  • harangues
  • harasses
  • harm
  • harries
  • has at
  • hit
  • hurt
  • illness
  • imprecates
  • impugn
  • impugnment
  • incursion
  • incursions
  • infiltrate
  • initiative
  • inroad
  • insults
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • invade
  • invades
  • invasion
  • invasions
  • irruption
  • jump
  • kick
  • knock block off
  • knock cold
  • knock for a loop
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • larrup
  • lay into
  • lay siege to
  • libel
  • libels
  • light into
  • lights into
  • loots
  • malign
  • mobs
  • molest
  • mug
  • mugging
  • mugs
  • nukes
  • offences
  • offense
  • offenses
  • offensive
  • offensives
  • onrush
  • onset
  • onsets
  • onslaught
  • onslaughts
  • outbreak
  • overruns
  • overwhelm
  • pangs
  • paroxysm
  • paroxysms
  • pillages
  • pitches in
  • pitches into
  • plasters
  • plunders
  • plunge into
  • potshots
  • pounce upon
  • presses
  • profanes
  • prostrations
  • pugnacity
  • punch
  • pursues
  • push
  • puts down
  • raid
  • raids
  • rape
  • ravages
  • rebukes
  • recurrences
  • refute
  • relapse
  • relapses
  • reprimands
  • reprove
  • revile
  • reviles
  • robs
  • rounds on
  • rush
  • rushes
  • sacks
  • sails into
  • sallies
  • salvoes
  • salvos
  • savages
  • scathes
  • scolds
  • seizure
  • seizures
  • set to
  • set upon
  • sets at
  • sets on
  • sets upon
  • shoot down
  • sicks
  • sics
  • sieges
  • skirmish
  • slams
  • slander
  • slanders
  • slog
  • slurs
  • soak
  • sorties
  • spasm
  • spasms
  • spell
  • spells
  • stab
  • start in on
  • storm
  • storming
  • storms
  • stretch
  • strike
  • strikes
  • stroke
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • swarms
  • tackle
  • tackles
  • take the offensive
  • take up
  • takes up
  • tear into
  • tears into
  • throe
  • throes
  • thrust
  • ties into
  • traduces
  • trashes
  • turn on
  • turns
  • undertakes
  • vilification
  • vilifies
  • vilify
  • violation
  • vituperates
  • volley
  • volleys
  • wallop
  • waylays
  • whammies
  • whips
  • whop

baddies

  • assassins
  • bandits
  • beasts
  • blackguards
  • bravoes
  • bravos
  • brutes
  • cads
  • caitiffs
  • cons
  • convicts
  • criminals
  • crooks
  • culprits
  • cutthroats
  • desperadoes
  • desperados
  • devils
  • evildoers
  • felons
  • fiends
  • gangsters
  • goons
  • gunmen
  • heavies
  • heels
  • hoodlums
  • hooligans
  • hounds
  • jailbirds
  • knaves
  • lawbreakers
  • losers
  • lowlifes
  • lowlives
  • malefactors
  • meanies
  • miscreants
  • monsters
  • nazis
  • no-goods
  • offenders
  • outlaws
  • perpetrators
  • perps
  • racketeers
  • rapscallions
  • rascals
  • reprobates
  • rogues
  • roughs
  • rowdies
  • ruffians
  • savages
  • scalawags
  • scallywags
  • scamps
  • scapegraces
  • scoundrels
  • serpents
  • sinners
  • snakes
  • stinkers
  • thugs
  • toughs
  • transgressors
  • trash
  • trespassers
  • varlets
  • villainesses
  • villains
  • vipers
  • wretches
  • wrongdoers

barbarians

cads

  • Neanderthals
  • airheads
  • barbarians
  • bastards
  • beasts
  • birdbrains
  • bleeders
  • blighters
  • blockheads
  • boobies
  • boors
  • bounders
  • brats
  • brutes
  • buggers
  • buzzards
  • cavemen
  • chuffs
  • churls
  • clowns
  • creeps
  • cretins
  • cruds
  • crumbs
  • curs
  • dinks
  • dirtbags
  • dogs
  • dolts
  • doofuses
  • dopes
  • dorks
  • dufuses
  • dweebs
  • finks
  • fools
  • goons
  • half-wits
  • heels
  • hounds
  • idiots
  • imbeciles
  • insolents
  • jackasses
  • jerks
  • jokers
  • loudmouths
  • louses
  • louts
  • lowlifes
  • lowlives
  • miscreants
  • morons
  • nerds
  • nincompoops
  • ninnies
  • nits
  • nitwits
  • nuisances
  • nuts
  • pests
  • pills
  • rascals
  • rat finks
  • rats
  • reptiles
  • rogues
  • rotters
  • roughnecks
  • savages
  • scabs
  • scamps
  • schmoes
  • schmucks
  • scoundrels
  • scumbags
  • scums
  • scuzzballs
  • skunk
  • skunks
  • sleazebags
  • sleazeballs
  • sleazes
  • slimeballs
  • slimes
  • slobs
  • snakes
  • snips
  • snobs
  • snoots
  • snots
  • so-and-sos
  • sods
  • sons of guns
  • stinkards
  • stinkers
  • swine
  • toads
  • turkeys
  • varmints
  • vermin
  • villains
  • vulgarians
  • wretches

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