barbarous
/ˈbɑːbərəs/adjective
1
- exceedingly brutal残忍的：
many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards.
许多早期抚养孩子的做法以现代标准看是很残忍的。
2
- primitive; uncivilized原始的; 未开化的：
a remote and barbarous country.
遥远而未开化的国家。
2.1
- (especially of language) coarse and unrefined（尤指语言）粗俗的, 粗野的。
派生词
barbarously
adverbbarbarousness
noun词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： via Latin from Greek barbaros 'foreign' + -OUS.