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Barbarous

Barbarous Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Barbarous? [adj] primitive in customs and culture [adj] (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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Barbarous: brutal \| cruel \| fell \| inhumane \| noncivilised \| noncivilized \| roughshod \| savage \| vicious Related Terms \| Find terms related to Barbarous: alien \| animal \| anthropophagous \| atrocious \| backward \| barbarian \| barbaric \| beastly \| benighted \| bestial \| bloodthirsty \| bloody \| bloody-minded \| bookless \| brutal \| brutalized \| brute \| brutish \| cacophonous \| cannibalistic \| careless \| clumsy \| coarse \| cretinous \| crude \| cruel \| cruel-hearted \| deceived \| demoniac \| demoniacal \| devilish \| diabolic \| doggerel \| Doric \| Draconian \| dysphemistic \| erroneous \| exotic \| exterior \| external \| extraneous \| extraterrestrial \| extrinsic \| faulty \| fell \| feral \| ferine \| ferocious \| fiendish \| fiendlike \| fierce \| foreign \| foreign-born \| functionally illiterate \| Gothic \| graceless \| grammarless \| gross \| harsh \| heathen \| hellish \| hoodwinked \| ignorant \| ill-bred \| ill-educated \| illiterate \| impolite \| imprecise \| improper \| impure \| in bad taste \| inconcinnate \| inconcinnous \| incorrect \| indecorous \| inelegant \| infelicitous \| infernal \| inhuman \| inhumane \| intrusive \| kill-crazy \| led astray \| loose \| low \| lowbrow \| malign \| malignant \| merciless \| misinformed \| misinstructed \| mistaught \| murderous \| Neanderthal \| noncivilized \| nonintellectual \| outland \| outlandish \| outside \| pagan \| Philistine \| pitiless \| primitive \| rough-and-ready \| rude \| ruthless \| sadistic \| sanguinary \| sanguineous \| satanic \| savage \| sharkish \| slavering \| slipshod \| slovenly \| solecistic \| strange \| subhuman \| tameless \| Tartarean \| tasteless \| troglodytic \| truculent \| ulterior \| unbooked \| unbookish \| unbooklearned \| unbriefed \| unchristian \| uncivil \| uncivilized \| uncombed \| unconscionable \| uncourtly \| uncouth \| uncultivated \| uncultured \| undignified \| unearthly \| unedified \| uneducated \| unerudite \| uneuphonious \| unfelicitous \| ungentle \| ungodly \| ungraceful \| ungrammatic \| unguided \| unholy \| unhuman \| uninstructed \| unintellectual \| unkempt \| unlearned \| unlettered \| unlicked \| unliterary \| unpolished \| unread \| unrefined \| unscholarly \| unschooled \| unseemly \| unstudious \| untamed \| untaught \| untutored \| vicious \| vulgar \| wicked \| wild \| wolfish See Also \| Barbarous In Webster's Dictionary \Bar"ba*rous\, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ?, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. {Brave}, a.] 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.] Barbarous gold. --Dryden. 3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. --Clarendon. 4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression --G. Campbell. Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See {Ferocious}.

Barbarous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Barbarous?

[adj] primitive in customs and culture
[adj] (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"

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Barbarous In Webster's Dictionary

\Bar"ba*rous\, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ?, strange,
foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus
stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. {Brave},
a.]
1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude;
   peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a
   barbarous country.

2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.]

         Barbarous gold.                       --Dryden.

3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.

         By their barbarous usage he died within a few days,
         to the grief of all that knew him.    --Clarendon.

4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

         A barbarous expression                --G. Campbell.

Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored;
     ignorant; merciless; brutal. See {Ferocious}.

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