Definitions for barbarous
ˈbɑr bər əsbar·barous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective

   (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"

2. barbarousadjective

   primitive in customs and culture

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. barbarousadjective

   Not classical or pure.

2. barbarousadjective

   uncivilized, uncultured

3. barbarousadjective

   Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

4. Etymology: From barbarus, from βάρβαρος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BARBAROUSadjective

   Etymology: barbare, Fr. βάϱβαρος.

   1. Stranger to civility; savage; uncivilized.

   What need I say more to you? What ear is so barbarous, but hath heard of Amphialus? Philip Sidney.

   The doubtful damsel dare not yet commit
   Her single person to their barbarous truth. Fairy Q. b. i.

   Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous. William Shakespeare, T. Andron.

   And he left governour, Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more barbarous than he that set him there. 2 Macc. v. 22.

   A barbarous country must be broken by war, before it be capable of government; and when subdued, if it be not well planted, it will eftsoons return to barbarism. John Davies, on Ireland.

   2. Ignorant; unacquainted with arts.

   They who restored painting in Germany, not having those reliques of antiquity, retained that barbarous manner. Dryden.

   3. Cruel; inhuman.

   By their barbarous usage, he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Edward Hyde, b. viii.

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1. barbarous

   Barbarous refers to something or someone that is savagely cruel, excessively brutal or lacking in civilization and culture. It can also imply a lack of refinement, sophistication or advanced societal development.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barbarousadjective

   being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country

2. Barbarousadjective

   foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste

3. Barbarousadjective

   cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless

4. Barbarousadjective

   contrary to the pure idioms of a language

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Barbarous

   bär′bar-us, adj. uncivilised: rude: savage: brutal.—adjs. Bar′baresque, pertaining to Barbary: barbarous, esp. in art; Barbār′ian, uncivilised: savage: without taste or refinement: foreign.—n. an uncivilised man, a savage: a cruel, brutal man.—adj. Barbar′ic, foreign: uncivilised.—n. Barbarisā′tion.—v.t. Bar′barise, to make barbarous: to corrupt as a language.—ns. Bar′barism, savage life: rudeness of manners: an incorrect form of speech; Barbar′ity, savageness: cruelty.—adv. Bar′barously.—n. Bar′barousness. [L.—Gr. barbaros, foreign, lit. stammering, from the unfamiliar sound of foreign tongues.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbarous in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of barbarous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of barbarous in a Sentence

1. Dr. Jose P. Rizal:

   Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

2. Herman Melville:

   We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

3. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

   Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

4. Vladimir Lenin:

   You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

5. Jan Smuts:

   Nazism ... destroys the very soul of our civilization ... I have not taken the same grave view of Bolshevism, for it never was clear to me that Bolshevism, in spite of its brutalities and cruelties, really threatened the essentials of our ethical civilization. And after all it was a revolution of a semi-barbarous people against a rotten government and an effete church. Nazi-ism in highly cultured Germany is a very different affair.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=barbarous
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Barbarous
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=barbarous
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barbarous
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=barbarous