BARBAROUS

barbarous. Barbarous, a. cruel, rude, uncivilized, improper

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Bar″ba‐rous (�), a. [[L. barbarus, Gr. βάρβαροσ, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave, a.]] 1. 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
2. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
Barbarous gold. Dryden. 3. 3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon. 4. 4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
A barbarous expression G. Campbell. Syn. — Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.