Thesaurus: barbarous

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1. a. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
2. a. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
3. a. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
4. a. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
5. adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
6. adj. primitive in customs and culture
7. j:100 s. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering s. primitive in customs and culture