Barbarous

What do we mean by barbarous?

Primitive or undeveloped in culture and customs; uncivilized. adjective

Lacking refinement or culture; coarse. adjective

Characterized by savagery; very cruel. adjective

Marked by the use or occurrence of barbarisms in spoken or written language. adjective

Foreign; not classical or pure; abounding in barbarisms; of or pertaining to an illiterate people: applied to language, originally to languages which were not Greek or Latin. See barbarism.

Speaking a foreign language; foreign; outlandish: applied to people. Archaic. See barbarian, n., 1.

Characterized by or showing ignorance of arts and civilization; uncivilized; rude; wild; savage: as, barbarous peoples, nations, or countries; barbarous habits or customs.

Pertaining to or characteristic of barbarians; adapted to the taste of barbarians; barbaric; of outlandish character.

Cruel; ferocious; inhuman: as, barbarous treatment.

Harsh-sounding, like the speech of barbarians: as, wild and barbarous music.

Synonyms Barbarian, Barbarous, Barbaric (see barbarian); ruthless, brutal, fierce, bloody, savage, truculent.

Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians. adjective

Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. adjective

Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. adjective

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. adjective

Not classical or pure. adjective

Uncivilized, uncultured adjective

Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant. adjective

Primitive in customs and culture adjective

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

(said of language) Not classical or pure.

Uncivilized, uncultured

Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

Words that are spelled similarly to barbarous:
barbarous, barbarus, barbados, arborous, harborous, barbatus, harberous, barbadoes, tartarous, barbaro, barratrous, margarous, barbarum, barbaras.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word barbarous:
savages, civilized, meaningless, cruelty, cruel, natives, aggression, tongue, savage, manner, peoples, civilization, punishment, customs, slavery, warfare, attitude, noting, abolished, reverse, rebels, gothic, names, nation, latin, indians, describe, acts, ages, treatment, shall, victims, kings, nations, amongst, irish, argued, greek, committed, lewis, expressed, medieval, ancient, sense, inhabitants, our.

Words that rhyme with barbarous:
arborous, harborous, barberis.

Adjectives that are often used to describe barbarous:
least, french, inhumane, outward, such, ungracious, semi, late, spanish, bottom.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective barbarous:
nations, people, tribes, custom, age, treatment, manner, times, practice, state, ages, customs, country, cruelty, peoples, nation, countries, races, act, latin, race, language, methods, practices, hordes, acts, laws, policy, usage, jargon, condition, punishments, land, cruelties, fashion, war, enemy, punishment, names, tribe, name, manners, tongue, style, ignorance, method, dialect, conduct, character, society, indians, lands, rites, ancestors, invaders, warfare, deed, taste, enemies, inhabitants, past, king, execution, mode, habits, regions, natives, sentence, massacre, word, superstition, conquerors, sport, code, severity, savages, atrocities, wretches, tyranny, societies.

Consonant match to barbarous:
barberis.

Words that sound like barbarous:
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