Barbaric
[bɑː'bærɪk] or [bɑr'bærɪk]
Definition
(adj.) unrestrained and crudely rich; 'barbaric use of color or ornament' .
Typist: Ursula--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Foreign, outlandish, exotic, not native.[2]. Barbarian, barbarous, uncivilized, rude, savage.
Typist: Melba
Examples
- There is not a savage or barbaric race to-day that is not held in a net of such tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Latin tribes on the other side of the Tiber were by comparison barbaric. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is a tale frankly barbaric. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The story becomes the story of a barbaric autocracy in confusion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is evident this great stretch of country was becoming a region of accumulation for these barbaric peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He tempered the barbaric ferocity of his masters, and saved innumerable cities and works of art from destruction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To talk about such barbaric lands, and call existence there life! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Crispin, I am afraid a semi-barbaric life is making me heartless. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I suppose he wants to make out that Melnos is a barbaric place, and that this cruise partakes of the nature of a journey into Darkest Africa. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And the same tendency to break up into a number of warring states, and the same eruption of barbaric rulers, was displayed in East and West alike. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They became not very devout Moslems, retaining many traces of their earlier barbaric Shamanism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even my eyes, for long years accustomed to the barbaric splendours of a Martian Jeddak's court, were amazed at the glory of the scene. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was a barbaric thing to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the barbaric Greek herdsmen raiders came southward into a world whose civilization was already an old story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Left to themselves, or ignorantly tabooed, they break forth in some barbaric or morbid form. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Melba