Definition of Savage

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Savage

Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.

Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.

Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners.

Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.

A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.

A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.

To make savage.

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Savage Quotations

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Ayn Rand

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthur

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel

Savage Translations

savage in Danish is vild
savage in Dutch is wild, woest
savage in French is sauvage
savage in German is grausam, wild, wild
savage in Italian is crudele
savage in Latin is ferus, inhumanus, efferus
savage in Portuguese is selvagem
savage in Spanish is fiero
savage in Swedish is barbarisk, ociviliserad, vild, vilde

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