barbaric
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6.3
- adjective
- /bɑrˈbærɪk/
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brutal
- The horrors of the crackdown emblazoned in our minds an image of a barbaric land.
- barbaric acts
- barbaric violence
- barbaric punishment
And that's where she talks about barbaric America and Omolis.
- And that's where she talks about barbaric America and Omolis.
- All these things are caused by our ridiculous, cruel, barbaric use of animals for food.
- I don't know what Israel is supposed to do in light of this absolutely barbaric attack.
- But there is a place that calls itself such this and it is clearly the most barbaric, appalling, despicable tyranny.
- They're going to think, God, how barbaric, how backward with those people to be holding those kind of values.
- Whereas if we're living in conditions of true scarcity, then we tend to be a bit more barbaric towards one another.
- War, on the other hand, is seen as something rather dark and sinister, a relic of our of our barbaric past.
- Even in the ancient world, divine revelation comes into a primitive, barbaric world which is full of a lot of really bad guys.
- What they end up doing with it is they, they institutionalized things and they, they make things much more advanced and less primitive and barbaric.
Examples
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All these things are caused by our ridiculous, cruel, barbaric use of animals for food.
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An advanced civilization is, by definition, not barbaric.
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I don't know what Israel is supposed to do in light of this absolutely barbaric attack.
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Fresh protests erupted today over what many are now labeling a cruel and barbaric form of punishment.
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Many people consider the practice of animal fighting to be a barbaric display of cruelty.
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The documentary exposed the barbaric conditions in which the prisoners were held.
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The villagers condemned the barbaric customs of their ancestors that involved human sacrifice.
Synonyms
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4.8
Very cruel and violent, causing pain or suffering
151
8.1
A very cruel or violent act that shocks people, often against innocent people
16
5.9
Showing little social or cultural development and often acting rude and violent
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7.6
Not civilized and often rude in behavior
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8.5
Being very cruel and causing great pain
Very cruel and violent, causing many deaths
Antonyms
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word barbaric comes from an old word barbar that copied the sound 'bar-bar' for speech people could not understand, so it meant 'foreign' or 'not like us'. Because 'not like us' turned into 'uncivilized' and 'savage', barbaric now describes cruel or brutal behavior and shares the same root as barbarian.