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What is the adjective for barbarise?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb barbarize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

barbarous
  1. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
  2. uncivilized, uncultured
  3. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. cruel, savage, brutal, vicious, inhuman, merciless, ruthless, heartless, barbaric, pitiless, inhumane, sadistic, fierce, ferocious, murderous, fiendish, remorseless, wicked, atrocious, brutish, monstrous, vile, diabolical, heinous, nasty, wanton, truculent, villainous, nefarious, bestial, brute, infernal, butcherly, horrible, base, dark, ghastly, black, hellish, wolfish, crude, low, coarse, ignorant, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar, low-down, black-hearted, callous … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The barbarous ruler subjected his people to cruel and torturous methods of punishment.”
      “The barbarous tribe, still living in a primitive state, had little regard for human rights or ethical principles.”
      “One can only deplore of course the barbarous extremes that some of this antipathy has taken.”
barbaric
  1. Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. uncivilised, uncivilized, uncultivated, savage, barbarous, rough, rude, uncouth, coarse, barbarian, wild, boorish, crude, vulgar, loutish, primitive, unsophisticated, oafish, uncivil, heathen, brutish, Neanderthal, heathenish, natural, tasteless, graceless, thuggish, lowbrow, Neandertal, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, philistine, gross, uneducated, crass, impolite, ill-bred, ill-mannered, yobbish, churlish, rustic, lowbred, bearish, common, cloddish, classless, unmannerly, unmannered, discourteous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Marvel at such virtue, such beauty, and such grace, that can turn a language so crude and barbaric into something so elegant and fashionable.”
      “Crowther abhorred and totally condemned this barbaric practice of human sacrifice.”
      “His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre.”
barbarian
  1. Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. uncivilised, uncivilized, barbaric, uncultivated, savage, barbarous, coarse, rough, uncouth, rude, crude, wild, boorish, uncultured, vulgar, primitive, unrefined, loutish, unpolished, unsophisticated, uncivil, heathen, oafish, gross, brutish, Neanderthal, philistine, uneducated, heathenish, natural, unmannered, yobbish, lowbrow, Neandertal, untamed, thuggish, benighted, illiterate, ill-mannered, ill-bred, crass, graceless, tasteless, raw, rustic, inelegant, feral, churlish, vicious, rough-hewn … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I'm still a barbarian brute under these pretty clothes, as I plan to demonstrate with great vigor very soon.”
      “Despite our best efforts, we still run the risk of world conquest by a barbarian dictator.”
barbarious
  1. (literary) barbarous, barbaric.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The game is played out, the figures have melted away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed. Everything has become barbarious again.”
barbary
  1. (obsolete) barbarian; non-Christian
  2. Examples:
      3. “The main course included confit of barbary duck leg and roasted loin of beef.”
      “Also known as Barbary sheep, aoudads are horned sheep that exist primarily in the mountains of Africa.”
      “The ban on planting Barbary has been lifted in many communities where wheat production is not a livelihood.”
barbaresque
  1. barbaric in form or style
barbre
  1. (obsolete) barbarian
barbarized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of barbarize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dehumanised, dehumanized, brutalised, brutalized, bestialized, animalized, imbruted
barbarizing
  1. present participle of barbarize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dehumanising, dehumanizing, brutalising, brutalizing, bestializing, animalizing, imbruting
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