'Barbarous' definitions:
Definition of 'barbarous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(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" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]
adjective
Primitive in customs and culture
Definition of 'Barbarous'
From: GCIDE
- Barbarous \Bar"ba*rous\, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ba`rbaros, 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Barbarous gold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. [1913 Webster]
- By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. [1913 Webster]
- A barbarous expression --G. Campbell. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'barbarous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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