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Definition of Barbaric
1. Adjective. Without civilizing influences. "Wild tribes"
Similar to: Noncivilised, Noncivilized
Derivative terms: Barbarian, Barbarian, Barbarity, Savage, Savageness, Wild, Wildness
2. Adjective. Unrestrained and crudely rich. "Barbaric use of color or ornament"
Definition of Barbaric
1. a. Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of the east.
Definition of Barbaric
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barbaric
1. uncivilized [adj] - See also: uncivilized
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbaric
Literary usage of Barbaric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1975 barbarian, barbaric, barbarous Although these words are well treated in books
... 1954 barbaric is also used to mean “of or relating to barbarians”: ..."
2. Works by Herbert Spencer (1902)
"barbaric ART. A CONNEXION naturally exists between barbaric types of art and
barbaric types of society. Autocracy is the origin of both. ..."
3. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1880)
"New style arising from the contact of barbaric with Roman elements — No early
... Meanwhile new barbaric races had entered upon the stage of the world's ..."
4. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"... their empire over barbaric tribes. The political condition of the Greeks at
Bosporus was somewhat peculiar. The hereditary princes (above enumerated), ..."
5. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America by Charles Washington Baird (1885)
"He was chosen " ancien et diacre '' for one year in 1740. * Jean barbaric,
naturalized in England, January 5, 1688, with his two sons Pierre and Jean Pierre ..."
6. The Evolution of Literature by Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie (1911)
"CHAPTER XVII barbaric NARRATION BETWEEN verse and prose in all stages of culture
... METRICAL NARRATIVE The lowlier forms of barbaric literature may be ..."
7. The History of France by Parke Godwin (1860)
"If the barbaric chiefs acknowledged 1 DC Bell. Goth., l. iii., c. 33. thun conquests,
stands at the head of 1 The French antiquarians and hie- one, ..."
8. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François), F. Guizot (1856)
"Of the barbaric laws; 3. Of national traditions—They relate to very different
epochs—They ... Let us now consider the barbaric element, the German society. ..."
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