| barbarou | In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man is. |
| barbarou | There are still barbarous nations. |
| barbarou | The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act. |
| barbarous | (adj) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering, Syn. cruel, roughshod, fell, brutal, savage, vicious, Example: a barbarous crime; brutal beatings; cruel tortures; Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks; a savage slap; vicious kicks |
| barbarous | (adj) primitive in customs and culture |
| barbarously | (adv) in a barbarous manner, Example: they were barbarously murdered |
| Barbarous | a. [ L. barbarus, Gr. Barbarous gold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ] A barbarous expression G. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Barbarously | adv. In a barbarous manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Barbarousness | n. The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism. [ 1913 Webster ] |