Barbarous
['bɑːb(ə)rəs] or ['bɑrbərəs]
Definition
(adj.) primitive in customs and culture .
(adj.) (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' .
Typist: Thaddeus--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
(a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
(a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
(a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
Edited by Colin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Uncivilized, rough, coarse, rude, untutored, ignorant, unlettered, uncultivated, savage, barbarian, barbaric.[2]. Cruel, inhuman, brutal, brutish, ferocious, ruthless, fell, truculent, fierce, bloody.[3]. Uncouth (as a word or an expression), harsh, vulgar, contrary to good usage.
Edited by Bonita
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rude, strange, uncivilized, brutal, cruel, ferocious, inhuman, merciless,outlandish, savage, uncouth, atrocious, flagitious, unfettered, nefarious,gross
ANT:Polite, civilized, refined, humane, urbane
Edited by Lizzie
Definition
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.
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Examples
- It is possible that I am barbarous, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Tradition has preserved some wild strophes of the barbarous hymn which she chanted wildly amid that scene of fire and of slaughter:-- 1. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He was thinking: taking the heads is barbarous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The militias of some barbarous nations defended themselves much better. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But it was barbarous, Pablo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I love thee very much but thou art acting very barbarous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The poet replied with a barbarous rhyme and went below. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The most barbarous nations either of Africa or of the East Indies, were shepherds; even the Hottentots were so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This woman of whom he writeswhoever she beor any one, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and Edward, may have been so barbarous to bely me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- If it is not, I am unable to give an opinion on the barbarous language you address to Edward's sister. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All those colonies had established themselves in countries inhabited by savage and barbarous nations, who easily gave place to the new settlers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He thought it barbarous that a civilized and Christian country should deny the advantages of learning to women. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In those barbarous societies, as they are called, every man, it has already been observed, is a warrior. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Africa, when its most barbarous tribes were first discovered, was making various useful articles of iron. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Something very barbarous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But something barbarous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Tradesmen, when they speak against war, always profess to hate it because it is a bloody and barbarous proceeding. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It must have some tendency to sink their price in a barbarous, and to raise it in an improved and manufacturing country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In those days I was very barbarous. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Africa, however, as well as several of the countries comprehended under the general name of the East Indies, is inhabited by barbarous nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I think that's a barbarous thing, said Miss Ophelia, but I don't think you are all barbarians. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Her barbarous tyranny came to its close here in the rocky vale of Chamounix. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their use is barbarous, because they produce increased suffering without any corresponding advantage to those using them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Something barbarous, the gypsy grinned. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- To defend them from the barbarous natives, it is necessary that the place where they are deposited should be in some measure fortified. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A mind without tension, its roots are not in the somewhat barbarous under-currents of the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How barbarous! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I could not talk anything but English, and the girl knew nothing but Greek, or Armenian, or some such barbarous tongue, but we got along very well. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was about as barbarous an exhibition as we have witnessed yet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is a barbarous business. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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