单词 | barbarous |
释义 | bar·ba·rous 1. < barbarous language > : constituting a barbarism in speech or writing < a barbarous phrase > 2. a. < so barbarous are some of these jungle lands that when … mapping planes dipped low, savage Indians launched futile spears … at them — National Geographic > b. < a large enough advance to permit him to escape … from this barbarous country to lodgings in Paris or Rome — Harrison Smith > c. < the barbarous taste of our time and country, which had loaded … the furniture with bric-a-brac — Ambrose Bierce > < wolfing my dinner in order to arrive at the opera house at the barbarous hour of seven-fifteen — Winthrop Sargeant > d. < the crimes in this country are more barbarous — W.C.Reckless > Synonyms: see barbarian, fierce |
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