Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antisavage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-sav-age
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).

Example Sentences

"Furthermore, as the events of the Revolution receded into the historical background and racial polemic increasingly dominated the discursive foreground, antisavage rhetoric became both stronger and more generalized in ways that seemed to render increasingly unlikely either the chances of emergence of a belief in savage nobility in general or its particular association with Rousseau."

Etymology

From anti- + savage.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

more antisavage (comparative) most antisavage (superlative)

Questions

What does antisavage mean?: Opposing savages (people living in traditional, especially tribal, societies).
Where does antisavage come from?: From anti- + savage.

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