Cornels, and savage berries of the wood.
Dryden.
3. Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage
manners.
What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose
from savage to civilized without Christianity?
E. D. Griffin.
4. Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce; ferocious; inhuman;
brutal; as, a savage spirit.
Syn. -- Ferocious; wild; uncultivated; untamed; untaught; uncivilized;
unpolished; rude; brutish; brutal; heathenish; barbarous; cruel;
inhuman; fierce; pitiless; merciless; unmerciful; atrocious. See
Ferocious.
Sav"age, n. 1. A human being in his native state of rudeness; one who
is untaught, uncivilized, or without cultivation of mind or manners.