barbarous
uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
savagely cruel or harsh: The prisoners of war were given barbarous treatment.
full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant: an evening of wild and barbarous music.
not conforming to classical standards or accepted usage, as language.
foreign; alien.
(among ancient Greeks) designating a person or thing of non-Greek origin.
Origin of barbarous
1synonym study For barbarous
Other words for barbarous
Other words from barbarous
- bar·ba·rous·ly, adverb
- bar·ba·rous·ness, noun
- hy·per·bar·bar·ous, adjective
- hy·per·bar·bar·ous·ly, adverb
- hy·per·bar·bar·ous·ness, noun
- non·bar·ba·rous, adjective
- non·bar·ba·rous·ly, adverb
- non·bar·ba·rous·ness, noun
- pre·bar·ba·rous, adjective
- pre·bar·ba·rous·ly, adverb
- pre·bar·ba·rous·ness, noun
- un·bar·ba·rous, adjective
- un·bar·ba·rous·ly, adverb
- un·bar·ba·rous·ness, noun
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How to use barbarous in a sentence
The collective trauma created by these barbarous acts is impossible to imagine, both in the U.S. and in the Middle East.
One Former Hostage Says Negotiate With ISIS, And Pay Ransoms If You Must | Sarah Shourd | September 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOrwellian, Malthusian, barbarous, depraved…I think you get me.
Conservatives Find Typo in Obamacare, Try to Kill People With It | Michael Tomasky | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey wanted members of the public to see the consequence of what can only be described as their barbarous acts.
However, very little information is gleaned from these barbarous methods.
The barbarous Years, the long-awaited companion to Voyagers to the West, is an even greater achievement.
“The Barbarous Years”: What 17th-Century America Really Looked Like | R.B. Bernstein | November 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
I have been accused of showing irreverence towards these barbarous kings and priests.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordHe wrote verses with elegance in French, Spanish and Italian, and was a polisher of his native language in a barbarous age.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellEdward sent him to London, 'fettered on a hackney,' to undergo the same barbarous death as his heroic brother.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonCuriosity induced Mr. Cunningham and myself to view this barbarous feast and we landed about ten minutes after it had commenced.
Their garb, their gestures, their salutations, had a wild and barbarous character.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for barbarous
/ (ˈbɑːbərəs) /
uncivilized; primitive
brutal or cruel
lacking refinement
Origin of barbarous
1Derived forms of barbarous
- barbarously, adverb
- barbarousness, noun
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