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barbaric definition

bar·baric (bär ber′ik)

adjective

  1. of, like, or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilized; primitive
  2. wild, crude, and unrestrained

Etymology: ME barbarik < L barbaricus < Gr barbarikos: see barbarous

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barbaric Synonyms

barbaric

modif.

  1. Primitive

    uncivilized, wild, crude, unrestrained; see barbarian 1, primitive 3.

  2. Cruel

    inhuman, brutal, fierce, barbarous; see cruel 1. See syn. study at barbarian.


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barbaric Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • cruelty: There was never any excuse for such barbaric cruelty, especially by institutions which purported to be the sole arbiters of morality.

Modifying Another Word

  • so: We are so barbaric here that we execute the mentally retarded people.

Used with adjective complement

  • sound: I don't want to sound barbaric, but let me tell you, it is stimulating.
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barbaric quotes

The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

-Whitman,Walt(er)

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