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1. (adj.) barbarous
uncivilized; wild; savage.
2. barbarous
savagely cruel or harsh:
barbarous treatment of war prisoners.
3. barbarous
full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant:
wild and barbarous music.
4. barbarous
not conforming to classical standards or accepted usage, as language.
5. barbarous
foreign; alien.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < L barbarus < Gk bárbaros non-Greek, barbarian; see -ous)
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| Definition of 'barbarous' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
(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. (adj) barbarous
primitive in customs and culture
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| Definition of 'barbarous' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) barbarous
being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country
2. (adj) barbarous
foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste
3. (adj) barbarous
cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless
4. (adj) barbarous
contrary to the pure idioms of a language
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Sense: uncultured and uncivilized
barbarous habits.
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 Afrikaans: barbaars |
 Arabic: بَرْبَري، غَيْر مُتَحَضِّ |
 Bulgarian: варварски |
 Brazilian: bárbaro |
 Czech: barbarský |
 German: barbarisch |
 Danish: barbarisk |
 Greek: βάρβαρος, απολίτιστος |
 Spanish: bárbaro |
 Estonian: matslik |
 Farsi: بی فرهنگ؛ بی تمدن |
 Finnish: sivistymätön |
 French: barbare |
 Hebrew: בַּרבָּרִי |
 Hindi: गंवार |
 Croatian: barbarski |
 Hungarian: barbár |
 Indonesian: biadab |
 Icelandic: ósiðmenntaður |
 Italian: barbaro |
 Japanese: 野蛮な |
 Korean: 야만적인 |
 Lithuanian: barbariškas, laukinis |
 Latvian: barbarisks |
 Malay: kejam |
 Dutch: barbaars |
 Norwegian: barbarisk |
 Polish: barbarzyński |
 Persian: بی فرهنگ؛ بی تمدن |
 Pashto: بی عنعني، بي فرهنگ، بي تم |
 Portuguese: bárbaro |
 Romanian: barbar, sălbatic |
 Russian: дикий |
 Slovak: barbarský |
 Slovenian: barbarski |
 Serbian: varvarski |
 Swedish: barbarisk |
 Thai: ป่าเถื่อน |
 Turkish: kaba, medeniyetsiz, uyar |
 Taiwanese: 野蠻的，未開化的 |
 Ukrainian: варварський, дикий |
 Urdu: جڈ ، گنوار ا |
 Vietnamese: man rợ |
 Chinese: 野蛮的，未开化的 |
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