Savage vs Monster - What's the difference?
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wild; not cultivated
* Dryden
barbaric; not civilized
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* E. D. Griffin
fierce and ferocious
brutal, vicious or merciless
(UK, slang) unpleasant or unfair
(pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
* 1847 , , Tancred: or The New Crusade , page 251
(figuratively) A defiant person.
To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
(figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
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(obsolete) To make savage.
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A terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.
A bizarre or whimsical creature.
An extremely cruel or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
A horribly deformed person.
* 1837 , Medico-Chirurgical Review (page 465)
(figuratively) A badly behaved child, a brat.
(informal) Something unusually large.
(informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
Very large; worthy of a monster.
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To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
* 1983 , Michael Slater, Dickens and Women ,
* 2005 , Diana Medlicott, The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are'', Margaret Sönser Breen (editor), ''Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity ,
* 2011 , Stephen T. Asma, On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears ,
To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
* 1968 , , Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays ,
* 2009 , Darius Rejali, Torture and Democracy ,
* 2010 , Joshua E. S. Phillips, None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture ,
(chiefly, Australia) To harass.
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Monster is a synonym of savage.
In figuratively terms the difference between savage and monster
is that savage is to criticise vehemently while monster is a badly behaved child, a brat.As adjectives the difference between savage and monster
is that savage is wild; not cultivated while monster is very large; worthy of a monster.As nouns the difference between savage and monster
is that savage is an uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian while monster is a terrifying and dangerous, wild or fictional creature.As verbs the difference between savage and monster
is that savage is to attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint while monster is to make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.As a proper noun Savage
is {{surname|lang=en}.savage
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a savage wilderness
- savage berries of the wood
- savage manners
- I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
- What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity?
- savage beasts
- a savage spirit
- He gave the dog a savage kick.
- The woman was killed in a savage manner.
- - I'll see you in detention.
- Ah, savage !
Noun
(en noun)- 'Well, my lord, I don't know,' said Freeman with a sort of jolly sneer; 'we have been dining with the savages'.'
'They are not ' savages , Freeman.'
'Well, my lord, they have not much more clothes, anyhow; and as for knives and forks, there is not such a thing known.'
Verb
(transitive)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
- Its bloodhounds, savaged by a cross of wolf.
Anagrams
*monster
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Alternative forms
* monstre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The children decided Grover was a cuddly monster .
- Get away from those children, you meatheaded monster !
- Deducting then these cases, we have a large proportion of imperfect foetuses, which belonged to twin conceptions, and in which, therefore, the circulation of the monster may have essentially depended on that of the sound child.
- Sit still, you little monster !
- Have you seen those powerlifters on TV? They're monsters .
- That dude playing guitar is a monster .
Derived terms
* Cookie Monster * corporate monster * monstrosity * Frankenstein's monster * the Loch Ness monster * monster truckAdjective
(-)- He has a monster appetite.
- (Alexander Pope)
Synonyms
* (very large) gigantic, monstrousVerb
(en verb)page 290,
- A Tale of Two Cities'' and ''Great Expectations feature four cases of women monstered by passion. Madame Defarge is ‘a tigress’, Mrs Joe a virago, Molly (Estella?s criminal mother) ‘a wild beast tamed’ and Miss Havisham a witch-like creature, a ghastly combination of waxwork and skeleton.
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- The community forgives: this is in deep contrast to offenders that emerge from prison and remain stigmatised and monstered , often unable to get work or housing.
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- Demonizing or monstering other groups has even become part of the cycle of American politics.
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- Animals in our world have been monstered' by human action as much as the free beasts of the pre-lapsarian state were ' monstered by the primal crime.
page 292,
- In 2002, American interrogators on the ground in Afghanistan developed a technique they called “monstering'.” The commander “instituted a new rule that a prisoner could be kept awake and in the booth for as long as an interrogator could last.” One “' monstering ” interrogator engaged in this for thirty hours.177
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- The interrogators asked members of the 377th Military Police Company to help them with monstering , and the MPs complied.
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