1.
[syn: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild]
2. unrestrained and crudely rich;
- Example: "barbaric use of color or ornament"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Barbaric \Bar*bar"ic\ (b[aum]r*b[a^]r"[i^]k), a. [L. barbaricus
foreign, barbaric, Gr. barbariko`s.]
1. Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with
reference to barbarous nations of east. "Barbaric pearl
and gold." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person
or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
"Wild, barbaric music." --Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
barbaric
adj 1: 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" [syn:
barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized,
uncivilised, wild]
2: unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or
ornament"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
180 Moby Thesaurus words for "barbaric":
Doric, Draconian, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, Tartarean,
aggressive, alien, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian,
barbarous, beastly, bestial, blatant, bloodthirsty, bloody,
bloody-minded, bookless, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish,
cacophonous, cannibalistic, careless, clumsy, coarse, crude, cruel,
cruel-hearted, deceived, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic,
doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, exotic, exterior, external,
extraneous, extraterrestrial, extrinsic, faulty, fell, feral,
ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flamboyant, flashy,
florid, foreign, foreign-born, functionally illiterate, garish,
gaudy, graceless, grammarless, gross, harsh, heathen, hellish,
hoodwinked, ill-bred, ill-educated, illiterate, impolite,
imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, incline, inconcinnate,
inconcinnous, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous,
infernal, inhuman, inhumane, intrusive, kill-crazy, led astray,
loose, loud, low, lowbrow, malign, malignant, merciless,
misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, murderous, noncivilized,
nonintellectual, ornate, ostentatious, outland, outlandish,
outside, pagan, pitiless, primitive, raucous, rough,
rough-and-ready, rude, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous,
satanic, savage, sharkish, showy, slavering, slipshod, slovenly,
solecistic, strange, subhuman, tameless, tasteless, tawdry,
troglodytic, truculent, ulterior, unbooked, unbookish,
unbooklearned, unbriefed, unchristian, uncivil, uncivilized,
uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured,
undignified, unearthly, unedified, uneducated, unerudite,
uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungentle, ungraceful, ungrammatic,
unguided, unhuman, uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt,
unlearned, unlettered, unlicked, unliterary, unpolished, unread,
unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly, unstudious, untamed,
untaught, untutored, vicious, vulgar, wild, wolfish