Antonyms for savagery
ˈsæv ɪdʒ risav·a·ge·ry

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1. savagery

   Antonyms:
   civilization, cultivation, culture, elegance, politeness, refinement

   Synonyms:
   barbarism, boorishness, brutality, clownishness, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, rusticity, vulgarity

Matched Categories

1. • Cruelty
   • Ferocity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. savageness, savagerynoun

   the property of being untamed and ferocious

   "the coastline is littered with testaments to the savageness of the waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and color and the throb of drums"

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousness

2. ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagerynoun

   the trait of extreme cruelty

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, barbarism, savageness, viciousness, ferociousness

3. brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagerynoun

   a brutal barbarous savage act

   Synonyms:
   atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, savageness, viciousness, barbarism, brutality, heinousness, barbarity, ferociousness

How to use savagery in a sentence?

1. Valerie Amos:

   For more than four years, we have watched Syria descend into deeper depths of despair surpassing even what the most pessimistic observers thought possible, in the past weeks, we have seen more and more heinous acts. Innocent men, women and children killed, maimed, displaced, and subjected to a savagery that no human should have to endure.

2. Hossein Salami:

   The blinded enemies of Iran, particularly the planners and coordinators of this cowardly act of terrorism must understand that such savagery will not cause a single wrinkle in our collective will to conquer bright scientific horizons, and be aware that the difficult revenge awaiting them is already an integral part of our work ! .

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   With the savagery of ISIS, with the aggression in terror by Iran's proxies, and by Iran itself ... the combination of turbulence has now displaced millions of people, has butchered hundreds of thousands, and we don't know what will transpire.

4. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   He knew that the place where MH17 came to rest was sacred and that a piece of it should come back to Australia, it was a humane and decent thing for him to know and do. It was a contrast to the savagery that brought down the plane.

5. Human Rights Watch:

   Every day across the country, Myanmar’s military and police are committing brutal acts that constitute crimes against humanity. Massacring civilians in a hail of bullets at a Buddhist monastery shows the desperate savagery of a regime wholly divorced from the Burmese people, governments around the world should recognize that Myanmar’s military junta government does not care about words.

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