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bar·ba·rous
 barbarous
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- pronunciation:
- bar
b
rs
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
brutal; cruel.
He would never emotionally recover from the barbarous treatment he received as a prisoner of war.- synonyms:
- barbaric, brutal, cruel, savage, wild
- antonyms:
- civilized, clement
- similar words:
- atrocious, barbarian, beastly, brute, brutish, coarse, cross, ferocious, fierce, inhuman, outrageous, pitiless, ruthless, truculent, uncouth, vicious
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| definition 2: |
crude; uncivilized.
Introducing her fiance to her old friends, she was suddenly embarrassed by his barbarous manners.- synonyms:
- barbaric, coarse, crude, uncivilized, unrefined, vulgar
- antonyms:
- civilized
- similar words:
- barbarian, boorish, ill-mannered, inhuman, rude, savage, uncouth, unpolished, wild
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| definition 3: |
violating accepted word usage.
Some strict grammarians still consider the use of "hopefully" barbarous when used as in the sentence "Hopefully, it won't rain on the day of the wedding."- similar words:
- alien, incorrect, nonstandard, ungrammatical, vernacular, vulgar
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| related words: |
bestial, violent |
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| derivations: |
barbarously (adv.), barbarousness (n.) |
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