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Synonyms for barbarous
ˈbɑr bər əsbar·barous
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
barbarous
Whatever is not civilized is barbarian; barbaric indicates rude magnificence, uncultured richness; as, barbaric splendor, a barbaric melody. Barbarous refers to the worst side of barbarian life, and to revolting acts, especially of cruelty, such as a civilized man would not be expected to do; as, a barbarous deed. We may, however, say barbarous nations, barbarous tribes, without implying anything more than want of civilization and culture. Savage is more distinctly bloodthirsty than barbarous. In this sense we speak of a savage beast and of barbarous usage.
Synonyms:
atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, cruel, inhuman, merciless, rude, savage, uncivilized, uncouth, untamedAntonyms:
civilized, courtly, cultured, delicate, elegant, graceful, humane, nice, polite, refined, tender, urbane
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, viciousadjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
Synonyms:
wild, uncivilized, fierce, savage, deplorable, reprehensible, fell, beastly, unrelenting, venomous, criminal, brute(a), condemnable, roughshod, barbaric, evil, feral, cruel, poisonous, vicious, furious, ferocious, barbarian, heavy-handed, brutish, bestial, brutal, ferine, uncivilisedbarbarousadjective
primitive in customs and culture
Dictionary of English Synonymes
barbarousadjective
Synonyms:
uncivilized, rough, coarse, rude, untutored, ignorant, unlettered, uncultivated, savage, barbarian, barbaricbarbarousadjective
Synonyms:
cruel, inhuman, brutal, brutish, ferocious, ruthless, fell, truculent, fierce, bloodybarbarousadjective
Synonyms:
uncouth (as a word or an expression), harsh, vulgar, contrary to good usage
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
barbarousadjective
Synonyms:
uncivilized, barbarian, inhuman, truculent, brutal
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#2028 | wild | |
#2384 | criminal | |
#3009 | evil | |
#3791 | barbara | |
#3929 | strange | |
#4253 | gross | |
#4538 | fell | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9792 | savage | |
#11289 | cruel | |
#12199 | rude | |
#15142 | fierce | |
#15992 | vicious | |
#16835 | furious | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#26177 | barbarian | |
#27959 | feral | |
#31262 | inhuman | |
#39424 | ferocious | |
#43810 | barbaric | |
#45805 | outlandish | |
#45984 | unfettered | |
#48360 | nefarious | |
#48929 | merciless | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#50274 | atrocious | |
#51420 | venomous | |
#51788 | untamed | |
#54728 | bestial | |
#55032 | deplorable | |
#58505 | reprehensible | |
#65166 | savagery | |
#66341 | barbarous | |
#66851 | barbarism | |
#70510 | beastly | |
#72930 | brutish | |
#98549 | uncouth | |
#102327 | uncivilized | |
#108868 | barbarity | |
#126547 | roughshod | |
#236180 | uncivilised | |
#290986 | condemnable |
How to use barbarous in a sentence?
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.
Nazism ... destroys the very soul of our civilization ... I have not taken the same grave view of Bolshevism, for it never was clear to me that Bolshevism, in spite of its brutalities and cruelties, really threatened the essentials of our ethical civilization. And after all it was a revolution of a semi-barbarous people against a rotten government and an effete church. Nazi-ism in highly cultured Germany is a very different affair.
It breaks immortality's neck. Contemplates crime and therefore halts it; It humbles barbarous nations, And makes of savages, champions! ("Por La Education")
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.
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