单词 | barbarian |
释义 | barbarian —barbarianism, n. /bahr bair"ee euhn/, n. 1. a person in a savage, primitive state; uncivilized person. 2. a person without culture, refinement, or education; philistine. 3. (loosely) a foreigner. 4. (in ancient and medieval periods) a. a non-Greek. b. a person living outside, esp. north of, the Roman Empire. c. a person not living in a Christian country or within a Christian civilization. 5. (among Italians during the Renaissance) a person of non-Italian origin. adj. 6. uncivilized; crude; savage. 7. foreign; alien. [1540-50; < L barbari(a) barbarous country (see BARBAROUS, -IA) + -AN] Syn. 3. alien. 6. rude, primitive, wild, rough, barbaric, coarse, ignorant, uncultivated. BARBARIAN, BARBARIC, BARBAROUS pertain to uncivilized people. BARBARIAN is the general word for anything uncivilized: a barbarian tribe. BARBARIC has both unfavorable and mildly favorable connotations, implying crudeness of taste or practice, or conveying an idea of rude magnificence and splendor: barbaric noise. BARBAROUS emphasizes the inhumanity and cruelty of barbarian life: barbarous customs. Ant. 6. cultivated, civilized. |
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