Barbarous

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.

3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

Synonyms: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; merciless; brutal. See Ferocious.