- barbarous adj
- Some people who cut hair can be quite barbarous.
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barbarous adj
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barbarous — [adj] crude, savage atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured,… … New thesaurus
barbarous — adj. barbarous to + inf. (it was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner) * * * [ bɑːb(ə)rəs] barbarous to + int. (it was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner) … Combinatory dictionary
barbarous — [bär′bə rəs] adj. [L barbarus < Gr barbaros, foreign, strange, ignorant < IE echoic base * barbar , used for unintelligible speech of foreigners > Sans barbara , stammering, non Aryan] 1. Obs. foreign or alien; in the ancient world, non… … English World dictionary
barbarous — adj 1. primitive, rude, wild, uncivilized. See barbarian (def.1). 2. ferocious, fierce, savage, vicious; brutish, murderous, slaughterous; remorseless, unrelenting. See barbaric (defs.2, 3). 3. discordant, dissonant, cacophanous, harsh;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
barbarous — adj. 1 uncivilized. 2 cruel. 3 coarse and unrefined. Derivatives: barbarously adv. barbarousness n. Etymology: orig. of any foreign language or people: f. L f. Gk barbaros foreign … Useful english dictionary
barbarous — [[t]bɑ͟ː(r)bərəs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous. 2) ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If … English dictionary
barbarous — barbarously, adv. barbarousness, n. /bahr beuhr euhs/, adj. 1. uncivilized; wild; savage; crude. 2. savagely cruel or harsh: The prisoners of war were given barbarous treatment. 3. full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant: an evening of wild and… … Universalium
barbarous — bar|bar|ous [ˈba:bərəs US ˈba:r ] adj [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: barbarus, from Greek barbaros foreign ] 1.) extremely cruel in a way that is shocking = ↑barbaric ▪ The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane. 2.) wild and not… … Dictionary of contemporary English
barbarous — bar•ba•rous [[t]ˈbɑr bər əs[/t]] adj. 1) uncivilized; wild; savage 2) savagely cruel or harsh: barbarous treatment of war prisoners[/ex] 3) full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant: wild and barbarous music[/ex] 4) not conforming to classical… … From formal English to slang
barbarous brutal cruel fell roughshod savage vicious — inhumane in hu*mane ([i^]n h[=u]*m[=a]n ), adj. not humane; lacking and reflecting lack of pity, kindness, or compassion; as, humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world; biological weapons are… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
