barbarous
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barbarous
- /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
adjective more barbarous · most barbarous · barbarouse
- Not classical or pure. He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
- Uncivilized, uncultured. [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
- Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage. Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
- Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant. I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs / By the known rules of antient libertie, / When strait a barbarous noise environs me / Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs
