noun
Meaning 1
The state of being barbarous; brutality
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
barbarity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪti/
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noun
Meaning 2
A barbaric act
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 3
crudity
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A crude act
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 5
a brutal barbarous savage act
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brutality, barbarism, savagery
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: atrocity, inhumanity
noun
Meaning 6
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarousness, heinousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inhumaneness, inhumanity
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: barbarství — state of being barbarous
- Czech: krutost — state of being barbarous
- Czech: nelidskost — state of being barbarous
- Dutch: barbarij — state of being barbarous
- Dutch: barbaarsheid — state of being barbarous
- Finnish: raakuus — state of being barbarous
- Finnish: julmuus — state of being barbarous
- Finnish: barbaarisuus — state of being barbarous
- Finnish: barbaria — state of being barbarous
- French: barbarie — state of being barbarous
- German: Barbarei — state of being barbarous
- Greek: βαρβαρότητα (varvarótita) — state of being barbarous
- Ancient Greek: βαρβαρότης (barbarótēs) — state of being barbarous
- Hindi: बर्बरता (barbartā) — state of being barbarous
- Hindi: क्रूरता (krūrtā) — state of being barbarous
- Irish: ainchríostúlacht — state of being barbarous
- Irish: barbarthacht — state of being barbarous
- Irish: danarthacht — state of being barbarous
- Persian: وحشیگری — state of being barbarous
- Polish: barbarzyństwo — state of being barbarous
- Portuguese: barbaridade — state of being barbarous
- Portuguese: barbárie — state of being barbarous
- Russian: ва́рварство (várvarstvo) — state of being barbarous
- Ottoman Turkish: وحشیلك (vahşilik) — state of being barbarous
- Ottoman Turkish: وحشت (vahşet) — state of being barbarous