· 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"

Synonym(s): feral, ferine

· 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