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What is the adjective for barbarous?

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

barbarous

(said of language) Not classical or pure.
uncivilized, uncultured
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Synonyms:

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

Examples:

“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

Of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilised, uncultured or uncouth.
Synonyms:

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

Examples:

“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

Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
Synonyms:

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

Examples:

“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

(literary) barbarous, barbaric.
Examples:

“The game is played out, the figures have melted away, the lines are frazzled, the board is mildewed. Everything has become barbarious again.”

barbary

(obsolete) barbarian; non-Christian
Examples:

“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

barbaric in form or style

barbre

(obsolete) barbarian

barbarized

simple past tense and past participle of barbarize
Synonyms:

dehumanised, dehumanized, brutalised, brutalized, bestialized, animalized, imbruted

barbarizing

present participle of barbarize
Synonyms:

dehumanising, dehumanizing, brutalising, brutalizing, bestializing, animalizing, imbruting

barbarised

simple past tense and past participle of barbarise

barbarising

present participle of barbarise

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