Barbarous - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈbɑːrbərəs|
Brit.
|ˈbɑːb(ə)rəs|
adjective
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering (syn: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious)
a barbarous crime
- primitive in customs and cultureExtra examples
...the barbarous treatment of the native peoples of the New World by those bent on conquest at any cost...
...an aunt who abhors barbarous behavior such as eating with your fingers...
It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
The trade in exotic birds is barbarous.
A barbarous country, where electrical instruments were unprocurable.
The more barbarous is a nation, the more imposing and peremptory are its claims.
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent
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