Definition of barbarous in English:

barbarous

adjective ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsˈbɑrbərəs

1Extremely brutal.
many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards
Example sentencesExamples
- Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act.
- But even then - I don't think many Barbeloids would disagree that fox hunting is a cruel, barbarous anachronism.
- Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous.
- Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals.
- Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them.
- Yes it is brutal, savage and barbarous - but I have so much respect for the bravery of heavyweight boxers.
- You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet!
- In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully.
- Those who commit barbarous and inhuman acts are very far from the spirit of Islam.
- ‘These horrific and barbarous attacks on civilians overnight in Casablanca demonstrated a callous disregard for all human life, regardless of nationality,’ he said.
- Just curious - can I call them barbarous savages now?
- Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform.
- First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets.
- ‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said.
- On the other side of the argument, people say that we have no right to kill foxes in the way that we do, and that fox-hunting is both cruel and barbarous.
- By failing to provide a context for terrorism, the media portrayed terrorists as irrational and barbarous.
- I saw everything as a cruel, barbarous joke on me and I became cruel and barbarous so that I wouldn't be broken by it.
- It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it.
- It might be harder still for some of us who have known people of influence and respect, who participated in policies which we regard today as outdated, barbarous, cruel and racist.
Synonyms
cruel, brutal, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
cruel, brutal, barbaric, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
2Primitive and uncivilized.
a remote and barbarous country
Example sentencesExamples
- Or rather, did they strive to bring ‘civilization’ to the rude and barbarous peoples of the west and north?
- He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century.
- Call me barbarous, call me ignorant, but at least I won't have this disturbing feeling that I'm helping someone make piles of money off whatever terrible event is unfolding at the moment.
- Now suppose the Professor found the use of shells to be primitive and irrational - ‘a barbarous relic!’
- Justice Higgins argued in 1915 that conciliation and arbitration would provide a new ‘province of law and order’ to replace ‘the rude and barbarous process of strike and lockout’.
- But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent?
- As late as 1787, the English agricultural traveller Arthur Young was astonished to find many regions of France still dominated by ‘the common barbarous course’ of the three-field system.
- The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature.
- ‘The more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker,’ Marx wrote.
Synonyms
uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, heathen
uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbaric, heathen
1. 2.1 (of language) coarse and unrefined.
  avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities
  Example sentencesExamples
  Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered.
  Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business.
  For many people in England and elsewhere, the terms Anglo-English, England English, and English English are tautologous and barbarous.
  I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
  In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular.
  Synonyms
  coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish

Derivatives

barbarously

adverb ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsliˈbɑrb(ə)rəsli

As Ellis describes it: ‘‘Homosexual’ is a barbarously hybrid word.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Moreover, the September 11 attacks vividly showed what many have warned of for some time: terrorism's reach is broad, its resources deep and its intentions barbarously lethal.
- It is also an enormous affront to the memory of the 3,000 men and women murdered so barbarously on 11 September 2001.
- The English poet John Dryden, who died in 1700, complained that the language was becoming unruly and disordered - ‘how barbarously we yet write and speak’, he said.
- Two days later, on Wednesday 12 March, another young woman was barbarously stabbed to death.

barbarousness

noun ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsnəs

No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions.
Example sentencesExamples
- A Londoner by birth and inclination, he couldn't stand ‘the barbarousness and insipid dulnesse of the Country’.
- The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
- Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament.
- It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war.

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek barbaros 'foreign' + -ous.

Definition of barbarous in US English:

barbarous

adjectiveˈbɑrbərəsˈbärbərəs

1Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards
Example sentencesExamples
- Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform.
- But even then - I don't think many Barbeloids would disagree that fox hunting is a cruel, barbarous anachronism.
- Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals.
- Just curious - can I call them barbarous savages now?
- On the other side of the argument, people say that we have no right to kill foxes in the way that we do, and that fox-hunting is both cruel and barbarous.
- I saw everything as a cruel, barbarous joke on me and I became cruel and barbarous so that I wouldn't be broken by it.
- It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it.
- By failing to provide a context for terrorism, the media portrayed terrorists as irrational and barbarous.
- Those who commit barbarous and inhuman acts are very far from the spirit of Islam.
- ‘These horrific and barbarous attacks on civilians overnight in Casablanca demonstrated a callous disregard for all human life, regardless of nationality,’ he said.
- Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them.
- You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet!
- Yes it is brutal, savage and barbarous - but I have so much respect for the bravery of heavyweight boxers.
- Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous.
- It might be harder still for some of us who have known people of influence and respect, who participated in policies which we regard today as outdated, barbarous, cruel and racist.
- Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act.
- In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully.
- First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets.
- ‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said.
Synonyms
cruel, brutal, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
cruel, brutal, barbaric, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
2Primitive and uncivilized.
a remote and barbarous country
Example sentencesExamples
- But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent?
- ‘The more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker,’ Marx wrote.
- Or rather, did they strive to bring ‘civilization’ to the rude and barbarous peoples of the west and north?
- Justice Higgins argued in 1915 that conciliation and arbitration would provide a new ‘province of law and order’ to replace ‘the rude and barbarous process of strike and lockout’.
- The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature.
- As late as 1787, the English agricultural traveller Arthur Young was astonished to find many regions of France still dominated by ‘the common barbarous course’ of the three-field system.
- Call me barbarous, call me ignorant, but at least I won't have this disturbing feeling that I'm helping someone make piles of money off whatever terrible event is unfolding at the moment.
- He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century.
- Now suppose the Professor found the use of shells to be primitive and irrational - ‘a barbarous relic!’
Synonyms
uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, heathen
uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbaric, heathen
1. 2.1 (of language) coarse and unrefined.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered.
  I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault.
  In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular.
  For many people in England and elsewhere, the terms Anglo-English, England English, and English English are tautologous and barbarous.
  Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business.
  Synonyms
  coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish

Origin

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

单词	barbarous
释义	Definition of barbarous in English: barbarous adjective ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsˈbɑrbərəs 1Extremely brutal. many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards Example sentencesExamples Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act. But even then - I don't think many Barbeloids would disagree that fox hunting is a cruel, barbarous anachronism. Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous. Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals. Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them. Yes it is brutal, savage and barbarous - but I have so much respect for the bravery of heavyweight boxers. You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet! In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully. Those who commit barbarous and inhuman acts are very far from the spirit of Islam. ‘These horrific and barbarous attacks on civilians overnight in Casablanca demonstrated a callous disregard for all human life, regardless of nationality,’ he said. Just curious - can I call them barbarous savages now? Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform. First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets. ‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said. On the other side of the argument, people say that we have no right to kill foxes in the way that we do, and that fox-hunting is both cruel and barbarous. By failing to provide a context for terrorism, the media portrayed terrorists as irrational and barbarous. I saw everything as a cruel, barbarous joke on me and I became cruel and barbarous so that I wouldn't be broken by it. It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it. It might be harder still for some of us who have known people of influence and respect, who participated in policies which we regard today as outdated, barbarous, cruel and racist. Synonyms cruel, brutal, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible cruel, brutal, barbaric, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible 2Primitive and uncivilized. a remote and barbarous country Example sentencesExamples Or rather, did they strive to bring ‘civilization’ to the rude and barbarous peoples of the west and north? He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century. Call me barbarous, call me ignorant, but at least I won't have this disturbing feeling that I'm helping someone make piles of money off whatever terrible event is unfolding at the moment. Now suppose the Professor found the use of shells to be primitive and irrational - ‘a barbarous relic!’ Justice Higgins argued in 1915 that conciliation and arbitration would provide a new ‘province of law and order’ to replace ‘the rude and barbarous process of strike and lockout’. But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent? As late as 1787, the English agricultural traveller Arthur Young was astonished to find many regions of France still dominated by ‘the common barbarous course’ of the three-field system. The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature. ‘The more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker,’ Marx wrote. Synonyms uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, heathen uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbaric, heathen 2.1 (of language) coarse and unrefined. avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities Example sentencesExamples Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered. Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business. For many people in England and elsewhere, the terms Anglo-English, England English, and English English are tautologous and barbarous. I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault. In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular. Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish Derivatives barbarously adverb ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsliˈbɑrb(ə)rəsli As Ellis describes it: ‘‘Homosexual’ is a barbarously hybrid word.’ Example sentencesExamples Moreover, the September 11 attacks vividly showed what many have warned of for some time: terrorism's reach is broad, its resources deep and its intentions barbarously lethal. It is also an enormous affront to the memory of the 3,000 men and women murdered so barbarously on 11 September 2001. The English poet John Dryden, who died in 1700, complained that the language was becoming unruly and disordered - ‘how barbarously we yet write and speak’, he said. Two days later, on Wednesday 12 March, another young woman was barbarously stabbed to death. barbarousness noun ˈbɑːb(ə)rəsnəs No less sincerely did they consider the Soviet regime to be a product of the backwardness and barbarousness of Russian conditions. Example sentencesExamples A Londoner by birth and inclination, he couldn't stand ‘the barbarousness and insipid dulnesse of the Country’. The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal. Babits was a classicist: the legacy of Greece and Rome meant more to him than what he felt was the barbarousness of the Old Testament. It's a passionate, daring and unflinching look at the barbarousness of war. Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek barbaros 'foreign' + -ous. Definition of barbarous in US English: barbarous adjectiveˈbɑrbərəsˈbärbərəs 1Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal. many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards Example sentencesExamples Before Hitler's atrocities exposed the barbarous extremes of social engineering, eugenic views were regarded as radical visions of social reform. But even then - I don't think many Barbeloids would disagree that fox hunting is a cruel, barbarous anachronism. Acts of barbarous inhumanity are a grim reminder that, in the scheme of things, we are not much above wild animals. Just curious - can I call them barbarous savages now? On the other side of the argument, people say that we have no right to kill foxes in the way that we do, and that fox-hunting is both cruel and barbarous. I saw everything as a cruel, barbarous joke on me and I became cruel and barbarous so that I wouldn't be broken by it. It was so barbarous and inhumane that polite Romans did not talk about it. By failing to provide a context for terrorism, the media portrayed terrorists as irrational and barbarous. Those who commit barbarous and inhuman acts are very far from the spirit of Islam. ‘These horrific and barbarous attacks on civilians overnight in Casablanca demonstrated a callous disregard for all human life, regardless of nationality,’ he said. Fossey saw local Rwandan people as barbarous, and went to extreme lengths to protect the gorillas, even killing villagers' cattle and firing guns at them. You non-vegetarians are barbarous murderers, but please stop hurting our feelings by challenging the wisdom of a vegetarian diet! Yes it is brutal, savage and barbarous - but I have so much respect for the bravery of heavyweight boxers. Even today, Haitian occupation is portrayed as cruel and barbarous. It might be harder still for some of us who have known people of influence and respect, who participated in policies which we regard today as outdated, barbarous, cruel and racist. Such things never appear to bother Albert, the consummate technician, who dissociates himself psychically from the violent, barbarous act. In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully. First, in order to be initiated, a person has to bind himself, by the most cruel and barbarous oaths, never to reveal any of Masonry's secrets. ‘If we do have to take military action, we do so in the sure knowledge that we are removing one of the most barbarous and detestable regimes in modern political history,’ he said. Synonyms cruel, brutal, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible cruel, brutal, barbaric, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible 2Primitive and uncivilized. a remote and barbarous country Example sentencesExamples But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent? ‘The more civilized his object, the more barbarous the worker,’ Marx wrote. Or rather, did they strive to bring ‘civilization’ to the rude and barbarous peoples of the west and north? Justice Higgins argued in 1915 that conciliation and arbitration would provide a new ‘province of law and order’ to replace ‘the rude and barbarous process of strike and lockout’. The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature. As late as 1787, the English agricultural traveller Arthur Young was astonished to find many regions of France still dominated by ‘the common barbarous course’ of the three-field system. Call me barbarous, call me ignorant, but at least I won't have this disturbing feeling that I'm helping someone make piles of money off whatever terrible event is unfolding at the moment. He was repelled by the obscurity of its content and the barbarous style of the rather primitive version made by half-educated missionaries in the second century. Now suppose the Professor found the use of shells to be primitive and irrational - ‘a barbarous relic!’ Synonyms uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, heathen uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbaric, heathen 2.1 (of language) coarse and unrefined. Example sentencesExamples Full of zesty barbarous language and wordplay, it reminds me of why Wilde is so revered. I don't think it needs to be described in that barbarous language, which has become infected by that awful poltroon, Foucault. In the ears of the new French lords and their clerks, English had a barbarous sound, and there followed an onslaught on the old vernacular. For many people in England and elsewhere, the terms Anglo-English, England English, and English English are tautologous and barbarous. Lithuanian was considered to be a barbarous language, unworthy of religious use, so Polish was used for all official religious business. Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish Origin Late Middle English (in barbarous (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek barbaros ‘foreign’ + -ous.
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