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. 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden. 3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon. 4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell. Syn. -- Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.
8. j:100 s. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering s. primitive in customs and culture