barbaric
adjective
[ bɑːˈbarɪk ]
• savagely cruel.
• "he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war"
Similar:
cruel,
brutal,
barbarous,
brutish,
bestial,
savage,
vicious,
fierce,
ferocious,
wicked,
nasty,
ruthless,
remorseless,
merciless,
villainous,
murderous,
heinous,
nefarious,
monstrous,
base,
low,
low-down,
vile,
inhuman,
infernal,
dark,
black,
black-hearted,
fiendish,
hellish,
diabolical,
ghastly,
horrible,
• primitive; unsophisticated.
• "the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed"
Similar:
uncivilized,
primitive,
unsophisticated,
barbarous,
heathen,
wild,
brutish,
Neanderthal,
barbarian,
thuggish,
loutish,
uncouth,
coarse,
rough,
boorish,
oafish,
vulgar,
rude,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘a barbarian’): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros ‘foreign’ (especially with reference to speech).
