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barbaric 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/bärˈbarik/,
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Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal,
  1. Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal
    • - he had carried out barbaric acts in the name of war
  2. Primitive; unsophisticated
    • - the barbaric splendor he found in civilizations since destroyed
  3. Uncivilized and uncultured

  1. barbarian: 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"
  2. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
  3. (barbarism) brutality: a brutal barbarous savage act
  4. A barbarian is an uncivilized person. The word is often used pejoratively, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos, typically a tribal society as seen by an urban civilization either viewed as inferior, or admired as a noble savage. ...
  5. (Barbarism (linguistics)) Barbarism refers to a non-standard word, expression or pronunciation in a language, particularly one prescriptively regarded as an error in morphology, while a solecism is something prescriptively regarded as an error in syntax. ...
  6. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth
  7. (barbarism) A barbaric act; The condition of existing barbarically; An error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation
  8. (Barbarism) Also called serfdom or feudalism. A stage of social development above slavery, where most production came from serfs who were obliged to work on large estates under an aristocratic family. More
  9. (Barbarism) Mispronunciation or unnatural word-usage.
  10. (barbarism) According to the system of cultural anthropology developed by Morgan, the period of human history after the invention of pottery but before the invention of phonetic writing; that is, after the end of savagery but before the beginning of civilization. ...