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   Bar·ba·rous

   /ˈbärbərəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal: "many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards" Similar cruelbrutalbarbaricbrutishbestialsavageviciousfierceferociouswickednastyruthlessremorselessmercilessvillainousmurderousheinousnefariousmonstrousbaselowlowdownvileinhumaninfernaldarkblackblack-heartedfiendishhellishdiabolicalghastlyhorribleOpposite benevolent
   • 2. primitive and uncivilized: "a remote and barbarous country" Similar uncivilizedprimitiveunsophisticatedbarbaricheathenwildbrutishNeanderthalbarbarianthuggishloutishuncouthcoarseroughboorishoafishvulgararchaic:rudeOpposite civilized
   • ▪ (of language) coarse and unrefined: "avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in barbarous (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’ + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. barbarously adverb
   • 2. barbarousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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