semi-barbariann.
One who is half-barbarian.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person
wild mana1400
woodwose?a1400
savaginec1450
woodward1488
savagea1544
woodman1601
barbarian1604
woodist1613
wilding1621
brutigenist1631
catamountaina1640
Caliban1678
semi-barbarian1692
Hottentot1710
semi-savage1807
pagan1879
1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 4 The rude and simple Semi-barbarians of Lycaonia.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 74 The sensual pleasures are the only study of the semi-barbarian.
1853 G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand x Those semi-barbarians of the north.
Derivatives
ˌsemibarˈbarianism n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1828 Examiner 122/2 An intention on the part of the Sultan to proceed to extremities in the usual headlong style of haughty..semi-barbarianism.
semi-barˈbaric adj.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]
wilda1300
bestiala1398
wilderna1400
savagine?a1439
barbaric1490
rudea1530
barbar1535
barbarous1538
pagan1550
uncivil1553
Scythical1559
raw?1573
savaged1583
incivil1586
savage1589
barbarian1591
uncivilized1607
negerous1609
mountainous1613
ruvid1632
ruvidous1632
barbarious1633
incivilizeda1645
alabandical1656
inhumanea1680
tramontane1740
semi-barbarous1798
irreclaimed1814
semi-savage1833
semiferine1854
warrigal1855
sloven1856
semi-barbaric1864
pre-civilized1876
wild and woolly1884
jungle1908
medieval1917
jungli1920
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Semibarbaric,..as semibarbaric display.
semi-ˈbarbarism n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun]
barbarousness1549
Barbary1564
barbarity1570
barbarism1584
incivility1584
uncivility1598
wildness1639
ferity1646
the (also a) state of nature1650
savagism1665
savagery1782
semi-barbarism1817
barbarization1822
incivilization1823
semibarbarianism1828
savagedom1844
barbarianism1854
uncivilizedness1879
uncivilization1880
bruteness1883
semi-savagedom1887
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. iv. 164 The age of false refinement, which is that of semibarbarism.
semi-ˈbarbarous adj.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]
wilda1300
bestiala1398
wilderna1400
savagine?a1439
barbaric1490
rudea1530
barbar1535
barbarous1538
pagan1550
uncivil1553
Scythical1559
raw?1573
savaged1583
incivil1586
savage1589
barbarian1591
uncivilized1607
negerous1609
mountainous1613
ruvid1632
ruvidous1632
barbarious1633
incivilizeda1645
alabandical1656
inhumanea1680
tramontane1740
semi-barbarous1798
irreclaimed1814
semi-savage1833
semiferine1854
warrigal1855
sloven1856
semi-barbaric1864
pre-civilized1876
wild and woolly1884
jungle1908
medieval1917
jungli1920
1798 A. F. M. Willich tr. J. C. Adelung Three Philol. Ess. p. cxxii, in Elements Crit. Philos. The ancient Britons were as little acquainted with the art of writing, as any of the rude and semi-barbarous nations of those times.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. ii. x. 437 Had the Hindus remained fixed from the earliest ages in the semibarbarous state.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. p. xxv Its Latin is rude and semibarbarous in grammar and spelling.
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