adjective
1.
being undomesticated and often destructive or ferocious through lack of restraints or human control
savage dogs
Synonyms: feral, vicious, wild; compare wild 1
Related Word: uncivilized, undomesticated, unsocialized; unbroken, unsubdued, untamed; bestial, brutal, brute; ferocious, fierce
Contrasted words: civilized, domesticated, socialized; broken, subdued, tamed; domestic, tame
2.
Synonyms: fierce 1, barbarous, cruel, fell, ferocious, grim, inhuman, inhumane, truculent, wolfish
Related Word: coldhearted, heartless, implacable, relentless, unrelenting; rapacious, ravenous, voracious; bloodthirsty, bloody, butcherly, murderous, rabid
3.
Synonyms: barbarian 1, barbaric, barbarous, Gothic, Hunnic, Hunnish, rude, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild
Related Word: primeval, primitive; uncontrolled, unharnessed; harsh, rough, rugged