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Definition of Barbarous
1. Adjective. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. "Vicious kicks"
Similar to: Inhumane
Derivative terms: Barbarousness, Brutality, Cruelness, Savage, Savageness, Viciousness
2. Adjective. Primitive in customs and culture.
Definition of Barbarous
1. a. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
Definition of Barbarous
1. Adjective. (context: said of language) Not classical or pure. ¹
2. Adjective. uncivilized, uncultured ¹
3. Adjective. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barbarous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbarous
Literary usage of Barbarous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"As International Law grew up amongst the barbarous States of Christendom, and as
the circle of the members of the Family of Nations includes only civilised, ..."
2. Mitchell's Ancient Geography: Designed for Academies, Schools and Families by Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1849)
"56 THE barbarous NATIONS WHICH DESTROYED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 1. ... Al'arie, their
noted leader, was the least barbarous of all the conquerors who ravaged the ..."
3. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1773)
"... were made by the mutual agreement of the parties ; hence in the codes of the
barbarous nations ..."
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