To be barbarous is to be vicious and cruel or simply uncivilized. Wearing a leopard pelt skirt and swatting at people with a wooden club is barbarous, and so is eating spaghetti with your hands.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians;
Adjective S.
primitive in customs and culture
Adjective S.
(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"
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Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude;
peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
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Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
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Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
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Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
Barbarous
Barbarous gold.3.
By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him.4.
A barbarous expression
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians;
Usage Examples
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Other Usage ExamplesIn those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.