What does BARBAROUS mean?
Definitions for BARBAROUS
ˈbɑr bər əsbar·barous
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
barbarousadjective
primitive in customs and culture
Wiktionary
barbarousadjective
Not classical or pure.
barbarousadjective
uncivilized, uncultured
barbarousadjective
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Etymology: From barbarus, from βάρβαρος.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
BARBAROUSadjective
Etymology: barbare, Fr. βάϱβαρος.
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.
They who restored painting in Germany, not having those reliques of antiquity, retained that barbarous manner. Dryden.
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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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 Dictionary
Barbarousadjective
being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country
Barbarousadjective
foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste
Barbarousadjective
cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless
Barbarousadjective
contrary to the pure idioms of a language
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of BARBAROUS in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of BARBAROUS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of BARBAROUS in a Sentence
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.
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.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.
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.
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
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