barbarousness

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{n} cruelty, impropriety of speech
The state or quality of being barbarous
the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
{i} brutality, savageness; primitiveness
The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism
barbarous
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant

Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673).

barbarous
uncivilized, uncultured
barbarous
Not classical or pure
barbarous
{a} cruel, rude, uncivilized, improper
barbarous
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
barbarous
disapproval If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is extremely cruel. a barbarous attack. = barbaric
barbarous
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless
barbarous
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste
barbarous
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country
barbarous
primitive in customs and culture (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks
barbarous
{s} cruel, savage; primitive, uncivilized, crude
barbarous
disapproval If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous
barbarous
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language
barbarous
primitive in customs and culture
barbarousness

    Hyphenation

    bar·ba·rous·ness

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 'bär-b(&-)r&s ] (adjective.) 15th century. Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros foreign, ignorant.
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