CIVILISING Antonyms

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

• punishingly harsh

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• disagreeably direct and precise

• 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

• lacking civility or good manners

• without civilizing influences

• (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