a member of an uncivilized people

[ Syn: barbarian ]

a cruelly rapacious person

[ Syn: beast , wolf , brute , wildcat ]

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalins roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks

[ Syn: barbarous , brutal , cruel , fell , roughshod , vicious ]

wild and menacing; a pack of feral dogs

[ Syn: feral , ferine ]

without civilizing influences; barbarian invaders; barbaric practices; a savage people; fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient-Margaret Meade; wild tribes

[ Syn: barbarian , barbaric , uncivilized , uncivilised , wild ]

marked by extreme and violent energy; a ferocious beating; fierce fighting; a furious battle

[ Syn: ferocious , fierce , furious ]

attack brutally and fiercely

criticize harshly or violently; The press savaged the new President; The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage

[ Syn: blast , pillory , crucify ]