barbarous

barbarous has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
• a.. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
• a.. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
• a.. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
• a.. primitive in customs and culture
• a.. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"