Usually means: Fierce, untamed, and ferociously wild.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Savage, savage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. savage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. savage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. savage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. savage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Savage, savage: Wordnik
  7. savage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Savage, savage: Wiktionary
  9. savage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. savage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. savage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. savage: Dictionary.com
  13. savage (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. savage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Savage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. savage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. savage: Rhymezone
  19. savage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. savage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Savage: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. savage: Free Dictionary
  23. savage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. savage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. savage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Savage: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. savage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. savage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. savage: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SAVAGE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Savage (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. savage, savage: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Savage: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See savaged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
adjective:  Barbaric; not civilized.
adjective:  Primitive; lacking complexity or sophistication.
adjective:  Fierce and ferocious.
adjective:  Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
adjective:  (slang) Of an insult or person: disrespectful, audacious, and either blunt or sarcastic, in a hilarious way.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
adjective:  (Ireland, US, slang) Great, brilliant, amazing.
adjective:  (US, slang) Severe, rude, aggressive.
noun:  (derogatory) A person not living in a civilization; a barbarian.
noun:  (figuratively) An aggressively defiant person.
noun:  (slang) Someone who speaks in an audacious, hilarious, and often sarcastic manner.
noun:  (obsolete) A wild and ferocious beast.
verb:  To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
verb:  (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
verb:  (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland.
noun:  A suburban city in Scott County, Minnesota; suburb of Minneapolis.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tate County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Richland County, Montana.

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