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Barbarous

Barbarous Meaning & Definition
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

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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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