barbarian

Meaning

Adj

Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.

Noun

1. A non-Greek or a non-Roman citizen.
2. An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; usually associated with senseless violence or other such shows of brute strength and lack of mental faculty.
3. A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
4. Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
5. A warrior depicted in sword and sorcery and other fantasy stories; typically clad in primitive furs or leather and favoring brute strength while often possessing a bellicose temperament and disdain for laws.
6. A cruel, savage, inhumane, brutal, violently aggressive person, particularly one who is unintelligent or dim-witted; one without pity or empathy.
7. A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.

Concepts

barbarian

savage

barbarous

barbaric

brutal

boor

foreigner

inhuman

uncivilized

Goth

atrocious

cruel

uncivilized person

churl

Persian

uncivilised

wild

vandal

primitive person

bloodthirsty

fierce

grim

incisive

merciless

unkind

aboriginal

aborigine

non-Arab

peasant

tike

tyke

harsh

bestial

devil

fiend

fiendish

heartless

vulgarian

outcaste

low fellow

one not an Aryan

non-Āryan

mountaineer

foreign

heathen

aborigines

hun

eskimo

Hun

beast

evil

ferocious

inhumane

bowelless

brute

brutish

green

gross

neat

raw

uncooked

underdone

unrefined

unripe

unripened

yard

wildcat

dark

graceless

noncivilised

noncivilized

uncultivated

uncultured

uneducated

ungentlemanlike

ungentlemanly

unlettered

unsophisticated

vulgar

amok

brainish

knockabout

riotous

unregulated

savages

loner

wild man

ape

rustic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑː(ɹ).ˈbɛə.ɹi.ən/

Etymology

From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from Medieval Latin barbarinus (“Berber, pagan, foreigner”), from Latin barbaria (“foreign country”), from barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, non-Greek, strange”), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to Sanskrit बर्बर (barbara, “barbarian, non-Aryan, stammering, blockhead”).

Sentences

They provided warnings about thieves and barbarian tribes .