· a member of an uncivilized people
Synonym(s): barbarian
Hypernym(s): primitive, primitive_person
· a cruelly rapacious person
Synonym(s): beast, wolf, brute, wildcat
Hypernym(s): attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
· attack brutally and fiercely
Hypernym(s): assail, assault, set_on, attack
· criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Synonym(s): blast, pillory, crucify
Hypernym(s): knock, criticize, criticise, pick_apart
· (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
Synonym(s): barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, vicious
· wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"
· 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"
Synonym(s): barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
· marked by extreme and violent energy; "a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle"
Synonym(s): ferocious, fierce, furious