CIVILIZE Antonyms

• become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language

• make crude or savage in behavior or speech

• treat brutally

• make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

• become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

• reduce the level of land, as by erosion

• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

• lower the grade of something; reduce its worth

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a cruelly rapacious person

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• wild and menacing

• without civilizing influences

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• attack brutally and fiercely

• criticize harshly or violently

• (of land or fields) not prepared for raising crops

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

• characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

• marked by extreme lack of restraint or control

• in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated

• a wild primitive state untouched by civilization

• a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition

• in an uncontrolled and rampant manner

• in a wild or undomesticated manner

• in a state of extreme emotion

• deviating widely from an intended course

• (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud

• without a basis in reason or fact

• talking or behaving irrationally

• involving risk or danger

• fanciful and unrealistic; foolish

• located in a dismal or remote area; desolate

• intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

• without civilizing influences

• (of the elements) as if showing violent anger