Dictionary Entry
barbarous
barbarous is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
- 2adjective
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
- 3adjective
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
- 4adjective
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
- 5adjective
primitive in customs and culture
- 6adjective
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
"a barbarous crime"
"brutal beatings"
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