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How to sign: marked by extreme and violent energy
"a ferocious beating"; "fierce fighting"; "a furious battle";
Similiar / Same: ferocious, fierce, furious
How to sign: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks";
Similiar / Same: barbarous, fell, vicious, brutal, cruel, roughshod
How to sign: a member of an uncivilized people
Similiar / Same: barbarian
Categories: primitive, primitive person
Within this category: cannibal, headhunter, hunter-gatherer, Odoacer, Vandal
How to sign: wild and menacing
"a ferocious dog";
Similiar / Same: feral, ferine
How to sign: without civilizing influences
"barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes";
Similiar / Same: barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild
