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barbaric
adjective
1 barbaric
Without civilizing influences:
— Barbaric practices.
synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild.
Roget 876:
ignoble,
common,
mean,
low,
base,
vile,
sorry,
scrubby,
beggarly;
below par;
no great shakes
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
homely,
homespun;
vulgar,
low-minded;
snobbish.
plebeian,
proletarian;
of low parentage,
of low origin,
of low extraction,
of mean parentage,
of mean origin,
of mean extraction;
lowborn,
baseborn,
earthborn†;
mushroom,
dunghill,
risen from the ranks;
unknown to fame,
obscure,
untitled.
rustic,
uncivilized;
loutish,
boorish,
clownish,
churlish,
brutish,
raffish;
rude,
unlicked†.
barbarous,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbaresque†;
cockney,
born within sound of Bow bells.
underling,
menial,
subaltern.
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Roget 907:
malevolent,
unbenevolent;
unbenign;
ill-disposed,
ill-intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned,
ill-contrived;
evil-minded,
evil-disposed;
black-browed†.
malicious;
malign,
malignant;
rancorous;
despiteful,
spiteful;
mordacious,
caustic,
bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent;
unamiable,
uncharitable;
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding,
galling.
harsh,
disobliging;
unkind,
unfriendly,
ungracious;
inofficious†;
invidious;
uncandid;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895;
surly,
sullen
etc.
901.1.
cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted;
black-hearted,
hard-hearted,
flint-hearted,
marble-hearted,
stony-hearted;
hard of heart,
unnatural;
ruthless
etc.
(unmerciful)
914.1;
relentless
etc.
(revengeful)
919.
cruel;
brutal,
brutish;
savage,
savage as a bear,
savage as a tiger;
ferine†,
ferocious;
inhuman;
barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric,
fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary;
bloodthirsty
etc.
(murderous)
361;
atrocious;
bloodyminded†.
fiendish,
fiendlike†;
demoniacal;
diabolic,
diabolical;
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
Satanic;
Tartaran.
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Roget 851:
in bad taste vulgar,
unrefined.
coarse,
indecorous,
ribald,
gross;
unseemly,
unbeseeming†,
unpresentable†;
contra bonos mores [Lat.];
ungraceful
etc.
(ugly)
846.
dowdy;
slovenly
etc.
(dirty)
653;
ungenteel,
shabby genteel;
low,
common,
hoi polloi [Gr.],
etc.
(plebeian)
876;
uncourtly†;
uncivil
etc.
(discourteous)
895;
ill bred,
ill mannered;
underbred;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unladylike,
unfeminine;
wild,
wild as an unbacked colt.
untutored,
unschooled
(ignorant)
491.
unkempt.
uncombed,
untamed,
unlicked†,
unpolished,
uncouth;
plebeian;
incondite†;
heavy,
rude,
awkward;
homely,
homespun,
home bred;
provincial,
countrified,
rustic;
boorish,
clownish;
savage,
brutish,
blackguard,
rowdy,
snobbish;
barbarous,
barbaric;
Gothic,
unclassical†,
doggerel,
heathenish,
tramontane,
outlandish;
uncultivated;
Bohemian.
obsolete
etc.
(antiquated)
124;
unfashionable;
newfangled
etc.
(unfamiliar)
83;
odd
etc.
(ridiculous)
853.
particular;
affected
etc.
855;
meretricious;
extravagant,
monstrous,
horrid;
shocking
etc.
(painful)
830.
gaudy,
tawdry,
overornamented,
baroque,
rococo;
bedizened,
tricked out,
gingerbread;
obtrusive.
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Polish: barbarzyński, niecywilizowany, nieucywilizowany
2 barbaric
Unrestrained and crudely rich.
Moby thesaurus: Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean, aggressive, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbarous, beastly, bestial, blatant, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, bookless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cacophonous, cannibalistic, careless, clumsy, coarse, crude, cruel, cruel-hearted, deceived, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, exotic, exterior, external, extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, faulty, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flamboyant, flashy, florid, foreign, foreign-born, functionally illiterate, garish, gaudy, graceless, grammarless, gross, harsh, heathen, hellish, hoodwinked, ill-bred, ill-educated, illiterate, impolite, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, incline, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intrusive, kill-crazy, led astray, loose, loud, low, lowbrow, malign, malignant, merciless, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, murderous, noncivilized, nonintellectual, ornate, ostentatious, outland, outlandish, outside, pagan, pitiless, primitive, raucous, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, showy, slavering, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, strange, subhuman, tameless, tasteless, tawdry, troglodytic, truculent, ulterior, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, unearthly, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungentle, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unguided, unhuman, uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt, unlearned, unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unpolished, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unstudious, untamed, untaught, untutored, vicious, vulgar, wild, wolfish ... show more.
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