| 单词 | barbarous |
| 释义 | barbarous (once / 645 pages) adj To be barbarous is to be vicious and cruel or simply uncivilized. Wearing a leopard-pelt skirt and swatting at people with a wooden club is barbarous, and so is eating spaghetti with your hands. Barbarous can describe a terrible, savage act, like mass murder or torture, but it can also describe people who are uncultured. It sounds better if you say it in a British accent. If a tribe of people who knew nothing about the modern world were discovered, they would be considered barbarous. To many, living without electricity seems barbarous. Barbarous is the opposite of refined and cultured. WORD FAMILYbarbarous: barbarously, barbarousness USAGE EXAMPLESHe rejected the voluminous testimony and documentary evidence that his regime has engaged in barbarous acts against its own citizens. The New Yorker(Nov 01, 2016) Then-Indiana Sen. Albert Beveridge justified the conflict when he said the U.S. had a duty to civilize “a barbarous race.” Los Angeles Times(Oct 31, 2016) It’s hard when you leave your home and you already didn’t have a lot because you were living under an oppressive, barbarous regime. Time(Oct 18, 2016) 1adj (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering a barbarous crime Syn brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious inhumane lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion 2adj primitive in customs and culture Syn noncivilised, noncivilized not having a high state of culture and social development |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。