<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed: savage beasts.</li><li>Synonyms: bloodthirsty, fell, feral, wild.</li><li>Antonyms: mild.</li><li>Offensive: relating to or being a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.</li><li>enraged or furiously angry, as a person.</li><li>unpolished; rude: savage manners.</li><li>Antonyms: cultured.</li><li>wild or rugged, as country or scenery: savage wilderness.</li><li>Synonyms: uncultivated, rough.</li><li>Antonyms: cultivated.</li><li>Archaic: uncultivated; growing wild.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a fierce, brutal, or cruel person.</li><li>a rude, boorish person.</li><li>Synonyms: oaf, churl.</li><li>Disparaging and Offensive: a member of a preliterate people or society regarded as uncivilized or primitive.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</p><ul><li>savaged, savaging: to assault and maul by biting, rending, goring, etc.; tear at or mutilate: numerous sheep savaged by dogs.</li><li>to attack or criticize thoroughly or remorselessly; excoriate: a play savaged by the critics.</li><li>to greatly weaken, damage, or harm: The age of automation and globalization, with companies searching for lower wages overseas, has savaged organized labor.</li></ul>