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barbaric
[ bahr-bar-ik ]
adjective
- without civilizing influences; uncivilized; primitive:
barbaric invaders.
- of, like, or befitting barbarians:
a barbaric empire; barbaric practices.
- crudely rich or splendid:
barbaric decorations.
barbaric
/ bɑːˈbærɪk /
adjective
- of or characteristic of barbarians
- primitive or unsophisticated; unrestrained
- brutal
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Derived Forms
- barˈbarically, adverb
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Other Words From
- bar·bari·cal·ly adverb
- nonbar·baric adjective
- prebar·baric adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of barbaric1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
This is especially barbaric when one considers the actual circumstances of these women.
According to Bale, Moses was “one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life.”
It was a violent and barbaric sport and I wanted nothing to do with it.
Rome wants and needs to be a capital of dialogue and peace, not a barbaric battleground.
The image of children being disposed of in such a barbaric and depraved manner outraged people across the world.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
There was one device of oath-taking, half pagan and half barbaric, which but very slowly relaxed its hold on Christian Europe.
But there was in general nothing Oriental about him, no assumption of barbaric pompousness, no extravagance of bearing.
Allow me to remark, that seems a far more barbaric trait of manners than the most barbarous of ours.
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