| noun | a member of an uncivilized people |
| noun | a cruelly rapacious person |
| verb | attack brutally and fiercely |
| verb | criticize harshly or violently “The press savaged the new President” |
| adjective | (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering “a barbarous crime” |
| adjective | wild and menacing “a pack of feral dogs” |
| adjective | without civilizing influences; ; ; ; -Margaret Meade “barbarian invaders” |
| adjective | marked by extreme and violent energy “a ferocious beating” |
| savage | adjective | without civilizing influences; ; ; ; -Margaret Meade |
| barbarian | adjective | without civilizing influences; ; ; ; -Margaret Meade |
| savage | verb | attack brutally and fiercely |
| savage | noun | a cruelly rapacious person |
| savagery | noun | a brutal barbarous savage act |
| barbarousness | noun | the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane |
| brutality | noun | the trait of extreme cruelty |
| cruelness | noun | the quality of being cruel and causing tension or annoyance |
| savageness | noun | the property of being untamed and ferocious |
| viciousness | noun | the trait of extreme cruelty |
| barbarian | noun | a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement |
| barbarity | noun | a brutal barbarous savage act |
| wild | noun | a wild primitive state untouched by civilization |
| wildness | noun | an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature |
| ferociousness | noun | the trait of extreme cruelty |
| ferocity | noun | the property of being wild or turbulent |
| fierceness | noun | the property of being wild or turbulent |
| furiousness | noun | the property of being wild or turbulent |