savage
Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
Barbaric; not civilized.
Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
Fierce and ferocious.
Brutal, vicious or merciless.
(slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful and audacious in a hilarious way.
(UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
(Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
(US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
(derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
The primitive individualism described by Thomas Hobbes is hence a myth. The savage is not solitary, and his instinct is collectivist. There was never a ‘war of all against all’.
(figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
(slang) Someone who acts in an audacious and hilarious manner.
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
(of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
(obsolete) To make savage.
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