Definitions for: Barbarous

[adj] primitive in customs and culture
[adj] (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"

Webster (1913) Definition: Bar"ba*rous, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ?, strange,
foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus
stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave,
a.]
1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude;
peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a
barbarous country.

2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.]

Barbarous gold. --Dryden.

3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.

By their barbarous usage he died within a few days,
to the grief of all that knew him. --Clarendon.

4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

A barbarous expression --G. Campbell.

Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored;
ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.

Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, inhumane, noncivilised, noncivilized, roughshod, savage, vicious

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