He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
It was a barbarous attack on a purely civilian train.
English dictionary. 2008.
Barbarous — Bar ba*rous, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ba rbaros, 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
barbarous — index brutal, cold blooded, cruel, disorderly, hot blooded, malevolent, malignant, ruthless, uncouth … Law dictionary
barbarous — c.1400, uncivilized, uncultured, ignorant, from L. barbarus, from Gk. barbaros (see BARBARIAN (Cf. barbarian)). Meaning not Greek or Latin (of words or language) is from c.1500; that of savagely cruel is from 1580s … Etymology dictionary
barbarous — 1 savage, barbaric, *barbarian Analogous words: *rough, harsh: untutored, untaught, uneducated, illiterate, *ignorant: *rude, rough, crude Antonyms: civilized: humane 2 savage, inhuman, ferocious, * … New Dictionary of Synonyms
barbarous — [adj] crude, savage atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured,… … New thesaurus
barbarous — ► ADJECTIVE 1) exceedingly cruel. 2) primitive; uncivilized. DERIVATIVES barbarously adverb … English terms dictionary
barbarous — [bär′bə rəs] adj. [L barbarus < Gr barbaros, foreign, strange, ignorant < IE echoic base * barbar , used for unintelligible speech of foreigners > Sans barbara , stammering, non Aryan] 1. Obs. foreign or alien; in the ancient world, non… … English World dictionary
barbarous — adj. barbarous to + inf. (it was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner) * * * [ bɑːb(ə)rəs] barbarous to + int. (it was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner) … Combinatory dictionary
barbarous — barbarian, barbaric, barbarous 1. These words had their origins in people s ideas about foreign languages. The Greek word barbaros, ‘barbarian’, which is the ultimate source of all these words, meant someone who spoke words sounding like ba ba.… … Modern English usage
barbarous — adjective Etymology: Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros foreign, ignorant Date: 15th century 1. a. uncivilized b. lacking culture or refinement ; Philistine 2. characterized by the occurrence of barbarisms … New Collegiate Dictionary
