Definition of savage
- a. - Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes
and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
- a. - Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts.
- a. - Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life;
savage manners.
- a. - Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious;
inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit.
- n. - A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who is
untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.
- n. - A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.
- v. t. - To make savage.