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Webster 1913 Edition
Barbarous
Bar′ba-rous
,Adj.
[L. ]
barbarus
, Gr. βάρβαρος
, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus
stammering, Skr. barbara
stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave
, Adj.
1.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians;
as, a
. barbarous
people; a barbarous
country2.
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
. Webster 1828 Edition
Barbarous
B'ARBAROUS
,Adj.
Thou are a roman; be not barbarous.
2.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as barbarous.Definition 2024
barbarous
barbarous
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) barbarouse
Adjective
barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)
- (said of language) Not classical or pure.
- uncivilized, uncultured
- Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)