Word Definition

Barbarous

  1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
  2. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
  3. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
  4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

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