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.
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.
Syn. -- Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored;
ignorant; merciless;
brutal. See Ferocious.
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