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English

Adjective

Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised|uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.
: Eating baby seals alive is barbaric.

Translations

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Hungarian:

fa:barbaric io:barbaric it:barbaric pl:barbaric ru:barbaric te:barbaric vi:barbaric zh:barbaric

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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]

WordNet barbaric
adj 1: 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,
savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
2: unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or
ornament"

Moby Dictionary
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