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   barbaric

   /bɑːˈbarɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. savagely cruel: "he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war" Similar cruelbrutalbarbarousbrutishbestialsavageviciousfierceferociouswickednastyruthlessremorselessmercilessvillainousmurderousheinousnefariousmonstrousbaselowlow-downvileinhumaninfernaldarkblackblack-heartedfiendishhellishdiabolicalghastlyhorribleOpposite benevolent
   • 2. primitive; unsophisticated: "the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed" Similar uncivilizedprimitiveunsophisticatedbarbarousheathenwildbrutishNeanderthalbarbarianthuggishloutishuncouthcoarseroughboorishoafishvulgararchaic:rudeOpposite civilized
   • ▪ uncivilized and uncultured: "drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘a barbarian’): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros ‘foreign’ (especially with reference to speech).

   Derivatives

   • 1. barbarically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 14

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