Synonyms for Barbarous

Synonyms for "barbarous" (206 found)

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Closest matches (42)

Adjective(8 words)

brutal cruel savagebarbarian warfarebarbarianlike barbaric beastlier crude

aboriginal alien animal anthropophagous atrocious backward barbarian barbaric beastly benighted bestial bloodthirsty bloodybloody mindedbloody-minded bookless brutal brutalized brute brutish

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cacophonous cannibalistic careless clumsy coarse cold-blooded cretinous crude cruel cruel-hearted cutthroat deadly deceived

Noun(1 words)

barbarian policies

Strong matches (61)

demoniac demoniacal devilish diabolic diabolical doggerel doric draconian dysphemistic erroneous exotic exterior external extraneous extraterrestrial extrinsic faulty fell feral ferine

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ferocious fiendish fiendlike fierce foreign foreign-bornfunctionally illiterategothic graceless grammarless grim gross harsh heathen hellish hoodwinked ignorant ill-bred ill-educated illiterate impolite imprecise improper impurein bad tasteinconcinnate inconcinnous incorrect indecorous inelegant infelicitous infernal inhuman inhumane intrusivekill crazykill-crazyled astrayloose

Adjective(2 words)

fell inhuman

Related words (103)

low lowbrow malign malignant merciless misinformed misinstructed mistaught monstrous murderous neanderthal noncivilized nonintellectual outland outlandish outrageous outside pagan philistine pitiless

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Adjective(8 words)

nonstandard primitive rough roughshod savagest uncivilized ungrammatical vicious

Noun(1 words)

torturing

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

4 entries

adjectivelinguistic featureorthographyqualitative descriptor

More specific

6 entries

archaic spellingbarbaric brutalnonstandard spellingsavage uncivilized

Collocations

5 entries

barbarous actsbarbarous practicesbarbarous punishmentbarbarous regimebarbarous spelling

Inflections

2 entries

more barbarousmost barbarous

Derivations

2 entries

barbarously barbarousness

similar

3 entries

inhumane noncivilised noncivilized

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

There are still barbarous nations.

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In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man is.

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The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.

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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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Barbarous