barbarous

Meaning

1. Not classical or pure.
2. Uncivilized, uncultured.
3. Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
4. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

Synonyms

savage

barbarian

barbaric

brutal

cruel

uncivilized

fierce

atrocious

fell

inhuman

uncultured

vicious

bestial

bloodthirsty

merciless

incisive

grim

unkind

roughshod

ferocious

harsh

uncivilised

unrefined

uneducated

take turns

time

⌚

tramontane

truculent

uncooked

uncultivated

underdone

ungentlemanly

unhuman

unlettered

unripe

unripened

unsophisticated

unworthy

vulgar

wild

yard

barbary

bowelless

not respectable

noncivilised

noncivilized

ungentlemanlike

Gothic

barbarious

aborigines

Translations

bárbaro

barbarisch

βάρβαρος

barbare

unmenschlich

inhumanus

inhumano

bàrbar

grausam

salvatge

barbaars

inhumain

bárbaro

haşin

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: -

In summary

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).