Definition of barbaric in English:

barbaric

adjective bɑːˈbarɪkbɑrˈbɛrɪk

1Savagely cruel.
野蛮的；残暴的
he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war
他以战争的名义实施了暴行。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Fox hunting is barbaric, it's cruel,’ he stormed.
- He also claims that the reaction from those living and working in the countryside will be much stronger if more Parliamentary time is devoted to ending this cruel and barbaric pastime.
- ‘We intend to eradicate this cruel, barbaric practice’, said a civil leader.
- If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane.
- That is cruel and barbaric, not to mention uncaring.
- This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were.
- This cruel and barbaric trade must be stopped immediately.
- Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby.
- First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death?
- The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination.
- Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
- We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by.
- By no measure was she cruel and barbaric, but the Lyin had threatened her kingdom for near on centuries, and their display of aggression had finally pushed the Vaxen into battle.
- History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric.
- It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry.
- Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime.
- Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime.
- The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there.
- He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal.
- That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it?
Synonyms
brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
2Primitive; unsophisticated.
原始的，单纯的
the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed
他在已被毁灭的文明里所发现的原始辉煌。
Example sentencesExamples
- The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
- The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art.
- Amara found this imprisonment rather crude and barbaric.
- The roof is like military wreckage left by an alien civilization; the material is coarse and barbaric.
- May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic?
- All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding.
- It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist.
- Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
- His arrangements fascinate - wild, barbaric, absolutely unscholarly - and yet he has absorbed and extended the musical essence of the originals.
- It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research.
- Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps.
- Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’.
Synonyms
savage, barbarian, barbarous, primitive, heathen, wild, brutish, Neanderthal
thuggish, loutish
uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, oafish, vulgar
archaic rude
1. 2.1 Uncivilized and uncultured.
  未开化的，无文化的
  drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric
  Example sentencesExamples
  Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised.
  He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized.
  I smirked, ‘Well I suppose even someone as rude and barbaric as me has manners.’
  Today, most of us in the Christian world would consider it primitive and barbaric to suggest that anyone be hounded or killed for communing with Satan.
  The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong.
  The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong.
  I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster.
  What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around?
  He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric.
  Hunting is a barbaric remnant from our primitive past.
  What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat.
  Sunnis view Shi'ites the way white South Africans viewed blacks, and now feel disenfranchised, seeing the barbaric heathens threatening to rule their country.
  We pummeled each other to the ground, screaming and yelling like our ancestors: barbaric Neanderthals.
  The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth.
  Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric.
  They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races.
  He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples.
  Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common.
  One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved.
  Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt.
  Synonyms
  coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish
  uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen

Derivatives

barbarically

adverbbɑːˈbarɪklibɑrˈbɛrək(ə)li

Most chillingly, we lost one of our own in the terrorist war, the brilliant Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and barbarically murdered in Pakistan.
Example sentencesExamples
- Take, for example, the horrible news coming out of Iraq about contract workers for Halliburton and other war corporations being brutally killed and their bodies barbarically desecrated.
- One of those is Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage by terrorists who have already barbarically murdered his two American comrades.
- Animals were barbarically killed even next to children's playgrounds.
- He is in a tricky position, trying to lead a country divided on a fundamental point of law, but this doesn't justify allowing one of his citizens to be barbarically beaten to death.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun in the sense 'a barbarian'): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros 'foreign' (especially with reference to speech).

Rhymes

Amharic, Garrick, Pindaric, samsaric

Definition of barbaric in US English:

barbaric

adjectivebärˈberikbɑrˈbɛrɪk

1Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war
他以战争的名义实施了暴行。
Example sentencesExamples
- Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime.
- If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane.
- He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal.
- Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime.
- The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there.
- History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric.
- This cruel and barbaric trade must be stopped immediately.
- We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by.
- That is cruel and barbaric, not to mention uncaring.
- First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death?
- The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination.
- Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife.
- ‘Fox hunting is barbaric, it's cruel,’ he stormed.
- He also claims that the reaction from those living and working in the countryside will be much stronger if more Parliamentary time is devoted to ending this cruel and barbaric pastime.
- It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry.
- This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were.
- That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it?
- Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby.
- By no measure was she cruel and barbaric, but the Lyin had threatened her kingdom for near on centuries, and their display of aggression had finally pushed the Vaxen into battle.
- ‘We intend to eradicate this cruel, barbaric practice’, said a civil leader.
Synonyms
cruel, brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
2Primitive; unsophisticated.
原始的，单纯的
the barbaric splendor he found in civilizations since destroyed
他在已被毁灭的文明里所发现的原始辉煌。
Example sentencesExamples
- The roof is like military wreckage left by an alien civilization; the material is coarse and barbaric.
- It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research.
- May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic?
- The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art.
- Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
- His arrangements fascinate - wild, barbaric, absolutely unscholarly - and yet he has absorbed and extended the musical essence of the originals.
- All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding.
- Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’.
- Amara found this imprisonment rather crude and barbaric.
- Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps.
- The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
- It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist.
Synonyms
uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen
1. 2.1 Uncivilized and uncultured.
  未开化的，无文化的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric.
  Today, most of us in the Christian world would consider it primitive and barbaric to suggest that anyone be hounded or killed for communing with Satan.
  One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved.
  I smirked, ‘Well I suppose even someone as rude and barbaric as me has manners.’
  Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised.
  They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races.
  Hunting is a barbaric remnant from our primitive past.
  What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat.
  The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong.
  He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized.
  The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth.
  Sunnis view Shi'ites the way white South Africans viewed blacks, and now feel disenfranchised, seeing the barbaric heathens threatening to rule their country.
  The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong.
  He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples.
  I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster.
  What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around?
  Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common.
  He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric.
  We pummeled each other to the ground, screaming and yelling like our ancestors: barbaric Neanderthals.
  Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt.
  Synonyms
  coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish
  uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘a barbarian’): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros ‘foreign’ (especially with reference to speech).

单词	barbaric
释义	Definition of barbaric in English: barbaric adjective bɑːˈbarɪkbɑrˈbɛrɪk 1Savagely cruel. 野蛮的；残暴的 he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war 他以战争的名义实施了暴行。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Fox hunting is barbaric, it's cruel,’ he stormed. He also claims that the reaction from those living and working in the countryside will be much stronger if more Parliamentary time is devoted to ending this cruel and barbaric pastime. ‘We intend to eradicate this cruel, barbaric practice’, said a civil leader. If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane. That is cruel and barbaric, not to mention uncaring. This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were. This cruel and barbaric trade must be stopped immediately. Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby. First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death? The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination. Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife. We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by. By no measure was she cruel and barbaric, but the Lyin had threatened her kingdom for near on centuries, and their display of aggression had finally pushed the Vaxen into battle. History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric. It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry. Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime. Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime. The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there. He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal. That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it? Synonyms brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible 2Primitive; unsophisticated. 原始的，单纯的 the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed 他在已被毁灭的文明里所发现的原始辉煌。 Example sentencesExamples The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth. The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art. Amara found this imprisonment rather crude and barbaric. The roof is like military wreckage left by an alien civilization; the material is coarse and barbaric. May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic? All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding. It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. His arrangements fascinate - wild, barbaric, absolutely unscholarly - and yet he has absorbed and extended the musical essence of the originals. It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research. Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps. Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’. Synonyms savage, barbarian, barbarous, primitive, heathen, wild, brutish, Neanderthal thuggish, loutish uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, oafish, vulgar archaic rude 2.1 Uncivilized and uncultured. 未开化的，无文化的 drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric Example sentencesExamples Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised. He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized. I smirked, ‘Well I suppose even someone as rude and barbaric as me has manners.’ Today, most of us in the Christian world would consider it primitive and barbaric to suggest that anyone be hounded or killed for communing with Satan. The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong. The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong. I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster. What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around? He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric. Hunting is a barbaric remnant from our primitive past. What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat. Sunnis view Shi'ites the way white South Africans viewed blacks, and now feel disenfranchised, seeing the barbaric heathens threatening to rule their country. We pummeled each other to the ground, screaming and yelling like our ancestors: barbaric Neanderthals. The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth. Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric. They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races. He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples. Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common. One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved. Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt. Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen Derivatives barbarically adverbbɑːˈbarɪklibɑrˈbɛrək(ə)li Most chillingly, we lost one of our own in the terrorist war, the brilliant Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and barbarically murdered in Pakistan. Example sentencesExamples Take, for example, the horrible news coming out of Iraq about contract workers for Halliburton and other war corporations being brutally killed and their bodies barbarically desecrated. One of those is Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage by terrorists who have already barbarically murdered his two American comrades. Animals were barbarically killed even next to children's playgrounds. He is in a tricky position, trying to lead a country divided on a fundamental point of law, but this doesn't justify allowing one of his citizens to be barbarically beaten to death. Origin Late Middle English (as a noun in the sense 'a barbarian'): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros 'foreign' (especially with reference to speech). Rhymes Amharic, Garrick, Pindaric, samsaric Definition of barbaric in US English: barbaric adjectivebärˈberikbɑrˈbɛrɪk 1Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal. he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war 他以战争的名义实施了暴行。 Example sentencesExamples Hunting has nothing to do with pest control and everything to do with a cruel, barbaric pastime. If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane. He subjected the 27-year-old mother to a savage, barbaric, and brutal ordeal. Hunting with dogs is a cruel, barbaric and unnecessary pastime. The organizers must do everything they can to prevent barbaric, inhumane acts of violence from occurring there. History will judge the actions of your government as cruel and barbaric. This cruel and barbaric trade must be stopped immediately. We too are firmly of the view that a line needs to be drawn on the barbaric and cruel country pursuits steeped in the feudal values of an age gone by. That is cruel and barbaric, not to mention uncaring. First, will this new society ever stop the cruel, barbaric treatment of farm animals that suffer from their birth to their horrific death? The area is deathly quiet, except for the sound of pelting rain and the soft voice of our guide, calmly and precisely detailing acts of barbaric savagery which still beggar the imagination. Hare hunting is a cruel and barbaric pastime carried out without respect for our wildlife. ‘Fox hunting is barbaric, it's cruel,’ he stormed. He also claims that the reaction from those living and working in the countryside will be much stronger if more Parliamentary time is devoted to ending this cruel and barbaric pastime. It was a gradual understanding of the sheer wrongness of my actions by my participation in such a cruel, barbaric industry. This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were. That would have been a cruel, barbaric and completely unnecessary level of violence, wouldn't it? Many will voice the opinion that circumcision is a cruel, barbaric procedure that can traumatize the baby. By no measure was she cruel and barbaric, but the Lyin had threatened her kingdom for near on centuries, and their display of aggression had finally pushed the Vaxen into battle. ‘We intend to eradicate this cruel, barbaric practice’, said a civil leader. Synonyms cruel, brutal, barbarous, brutish, bestial, savage, vicious, fierce, ferocious, wicked, nasty, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible 2Primitive; unsophisticated. 原始的，单纯的 the barbaric splendor he found in civilizations since destroyed 他在已被毁灭的文明里所发现的原始辉煌。 Example sentencesExamples The roof is like military wreckage left by an alien civilization; the material is coarse and barbaric. It was the barbaric form of primitivism that the print media continually drew from in its characterisations of my research. May we change barbaric, vulgar, and amoral political behavior via the political aesthetic? The three on the left are angular distortions of Classical figures, while the violently dislocated features and bodies of the other two have all the barbaric qualities of primitive art. Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. His arrangements fascinate - wild, barbaric, absolutely unscholarly - and yet he has absorbed and extended the musical essence of the originals. All my children have been engaged in this right now, though they are biased about it being primitive, barbaric and a bit too demanding. Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’. Amara found this imprisonment rather crude and barbaric. Perhaps she has forgotten that every year, millions of animals, including rabbits, minks, foxes, and raccoons, are trapped in the wild in barbaric steel-jaw leghold traps. The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth. It is seen as barbaric, irrational, primitive and sexist. Synonyms uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen 2.1 Uncivilized and uncultured. 未开化的，无文化的 Example sentencesExamples Many believed that slavery was a barbaric and primitive institution and that those who condoned it were, therefore, primitive and barbaric. Today, most of us in the Christian world would consider it primitive and barbaric to suggest that anyone be hounded or killed for communing with Satan. One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved. I smirked, ‘Well I suppose even someone as rude and barbaric as me has manners.’ Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised. They would act as messengers and help organize or establish the central government to calm the barbaric behavior of these primitive races. Hunting is a barbaric remnant from our primitive past. What a contrast between the amity and beauty of the temples of Khajuraho and the primitive, barbaric, dehumanised events in Gujarat. The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong. He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized. The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth. Sunnis view Shi'ites the way white South Africans viewed blacks, and now feel disenfranchised, seeing the barbaric heathens threatening to rule their country. The death of any living creature to satisfy an urge based in a primitive and barbaric past is morally wrong. He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples. I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster. What can we, the uncultured, unsophisticated, unwashed, barbaric, tacky and ignorant masses learn from the Mother Continent this time around? Britain in 1954 was not barbaric towards its prisoners and miscarriages of justice were hardly common. He rejects empiricism, reason and logic for a primitive bloodlust that can only be described as barbaric. We pummeled each other to the ground, screaming and yelling like our ancestors: barbaric Neanderthals. Many aikidoka have been led to believe that Daito-ryu is barbaric, unrefined, and spiritually bankrupt. Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish uncivilized, primitive, unsophisticated, barbarous, heathen Origin Late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘a barbarian’): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros ‘foreign’ (especially with reference to speech).
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