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Barbarous

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Adjective

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

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

Example Sentences:
'a barbarous crime'
'brutal beatings'
'cruel tortures'
'Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks'
'a savage slap'
'vicious kicks'

2. barbarous

primitive in customs and culture

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Barbarous

see synonyms of barbarous
adjective
1. 
uncivilized; primitive
2. 
brutal or cruel
3. 
lacking refinement

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Barbarous

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adjective
1.  Obsolete
foreign or alien; in the ancient world, non-Greek, non-Roman, or non-Christian
2. 
characterized by substandard usages in speaking or writing
3. 
characteristic of barbarians; primitive or lacking in civilization
4. 
uncultured, crude, coarse, rough, etc.
5. 
cruel; brutal
6. 
harsh in sound; raucous

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Barbarous

see synonyms of barbarous
adj.
1. Primitive or undeveloped in culture and customs; uncivilized.
2. Lacking refinement or culture; coarse: inappropriate, barbarous behavior.
3. Characterized by savagery; very cruel: a barbarous punishment; a barbarous tyrant.
4. Marked by the use or occurrence of barbarisms in spoken or written language.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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