Definitions for barbarous

barbarous bar·ba·rous

Spelling: [bahr-ber-uh s]
IPA: /ˈbɑr bər əs/

Barbarous is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in barbarous (aabborrsu).

Definitions for barbarous

adjective

  1. uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
  2. savagely cruel or harsh:
  3. full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant:
  4. not conforming to classical standards or accepted usage, as language.
  5. foreign; alien.
  6. (among ancient Greeks) designating a person or thing of non-Greek origin.

Origin of barbarous

1400-50; late Middle English Latin barbarus Greek bárbaros non-Greek, foreign, barbarian; akin to Sanskrit barbara stammering, non-Aryan; see -ous

Examples for barbarous

The barbarous Years, the long-awaited companion to Voyagers to the West, is an even greater achievement.

Orwellian, Malthusian, barbarous, depraved…I think you get me.

However, very little information is gleaned from these barbarous methods.

The collective trauma created by these barbarous acts is impossible to imagine, both in the U.S. and in the Middle East.

That sort of morality is good for your mountain peasants or other barbarous tribes.

This barbarous and savage entanglement is absolutely défendu.

They are measured by the horror which they arouse in a barbarous age.

They wanted members of the public to see the consequence of what can only be described as their barbarous acts.

The most ignorant and barbarous of these barbarians carry the report abroad.

The people were the poorest and most barbarous which he had met.

Word Value for barbarous
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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