adj
Meaning 1
Not classical or pure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
barbarous
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/
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CMU ARPABET: B AA1 R B ER0 AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Uncivilized, uncultured.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barbaric, savage, animalistic, barbarian, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ruthless, savage, truculent, barbarous, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, demonic, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, fell, incessive, inclement, inhuman, inhumane, malicious, merciless, nasty, nonhumane, pitiless, remorseless, rotten, sadistic, spiteful, unbenevolent, unbenign, unkind, unmerciful, unpitiful, unpitying
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 5
primitive in customs and culture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a barbarous crime
- brutal beatings
- cruel tortures
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
- a savage slap
- vicious kicks
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: bárbaro — adjective