Found 3 items, similar to barbarous.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: barbarous biadab
English → English (WordNet) Definition: barbarous barbarous adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; “a barbarous crime”; “brutal beatings”; “cruel tortures”; “Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks”; “a savage slap”; “vicious kicks” [syn: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: primitive in customs and culture
English → English (gcide) Definition: Barbarous Barbarous \Bar"ba*rous\, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ba`rbaros, strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf. Brave, a.] 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. [1913 Webster] 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Barbarous gold. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. [1913 Webster] By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] 4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. [1913 Webster] A barbarous expression --G. Campbell. [1913 Webster] Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious. [1913 Webster]