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barbarous 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈbärbərəs/,
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Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal,
  1. Savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal
    • - many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards
  2. Primitive; uncivilized
    • - a remote and barbarous country
  3. (esp. of language) Coarse and unrefined

  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"
  2. primitive in customs and culture
  3. (barbarously) in a barbarous manner; "they were barbarously murdered"
  4. (barbarousness) atrocity: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
  5. 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. ...
  6. Not classical or pure; uncivilized, uncultured; Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant
  7. Foreigner, to the Romans, anyone outside the Roman empire.