What does "barbarous" mean?
Barbarous: Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.
Additional senses
- 2.Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.
- 3.Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell. See Ferocious.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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