'Barbaric' definitions:
Definition of 'barbaric'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" [syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
adjective
Unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
Definition of 'Barbaric'
From: GCIDE
- Barbaric \Bar*bar"ic\ (b[aum]r*b[a^]r"[i^]k), a. [L. barbaricus foreign, barbaric, Gr. barbariko`s.]
- 1. Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. "Barbaric pearl and gold." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'barbaric'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Doric,
- Draconian,
- 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,
- Gothic,
- 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,
- Neanderthal,
- noncivilized,
- nonintellectual,
- ornate,
- ostentatious,
- outland,
- outlandish,
- outside,
- pagan,
- Philistine,
- pitiless,
- primitive,
- raucous,
- rough,
- rough-and-ready,
- rude,
- ruthless,
- sadistic,
- sanguinary,
- sanguineous,
- satanic,
- savage,
- sharkish,
- showy,
- slavering,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- solecistic,
- strange,
- subhuman,
- tameless,
- Tartarean,
- 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