Synonyms for Barbaric

Synonyms for "barbaric" (246 found)

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Closest matches (50)

Adjective(9 words)

uncivilized animalisticanimalistic traitsbarbarian barbarous brutal coarse crude cruel

aboriginal aggressive alien animal anthropophagous atrociousawe inspiringawful babylonian barbarian barbarous beastly bestial blatant bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded bookless boorish

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brutal brutalized brute brutish cacophonous cannibalistic careless clumsy coarse cold-blooded crude cruel cruel-hearted cutthroat deadly deceived deluxe demoniac demoniacal

Noun(1 words)

barbarian culture

Verb(1 words)

barbarized

Strong matches (73)

devilish diabolic diabolical doggerel doric draconian dysphemistic elaborate elegant erroneous exotic exterior external extraneous extraterrestrial extravagant extrinsic fancy faulty fell

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feral ferine ferocious fiendish fiendlike fierce fine flamboyant flashy florid foreign foreign-bornfunctionally illiterategarish gaudy ghoulish glorious gothic graceless grammarless grand grandiose gross harsh heathen hellish hoodwinked ill-bred ill-educated illiterate impolite imposing imprecise impressive improper impurein bad tasteincline inconcinnate inconcinnous incorrect indecorous inelegant infelicitous infernal inhuman inhumane intrusivekill crazykill-crazyled astray

Adjective(2 words)

heathenish inhuman

Related words (123)

loose loud low lowbrow luxurious magnificent majestic malign malignant merciless misinformed misinstructed mistaught monstrous murderous neanderthal noble noncivilized nonintellectual ornate

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Adjective(9 words)

primitive savage unciviliseduncivilized personuncultured unrefined unsophisticatedviolent actwild

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

7 entries

crueltycultural attributeethnographic descriptorinhumanitypejorative termstyle descriptorviolence

More specific

7 entries

barbarian culturebarbarian lifewaysbarbaric artbarbaric crueltybarbaric dictionbarbaric prosebarbaric violence

Collocations

6 entries

barbaric actbarbaric crueltybarbaric languagebarbaric practicebarbaric ritualbarbaric violence

Inflections

2 entries

more barbaricmost barbaric

Derivations

5 entries

barbarically barbarism barbarity barbarize barbarous

similar

3 entries

noncivilised noncivilized tasteless

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Saint Patrick lived and preached this kind of love among a pagan, barbaric generation of Irishmen around the year 432 AD.

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That's barbaric!

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How barbaric!

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Tom is barbaric.

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Barbaric