adj.
   - fierce, violent, and uncontrolled. 
▸cruel and vicious.
 - primitive; uncivilized.
 - (of a place) wild; uncultivated.
 
n.
   - a member of a people regarded as primitive and uncivilized.
 - a brutal or vicious person.
 - Heraldry  a representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves.
 
v.
  - (especially of a dog) attack ferociously.
 - criticize brutally.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - savagely adv.
  - savageness n.
  - savagery n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. sauvage ‘wild’, from L. silvaticus ‘of the woods’, from silva ‘a wood’.