| 单词 | barbarous |
| 释义 | barbarous —barbarously, adv. —barbarousness, n. /bahr"beuhr euhs/, adj. 1. uncivilized; wild; savage; crude. 2. savagely cruel or harsh: The prisoners of war were given barbarous treatment. 3. full of harsh sounds; noisy; discordant: an evening of wild and barbarous music. 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. [1400-50; late ME < L barbarus < Gk bárbaros non-Greek, foreign, barbarian; akin to Skt barbara stammering, non-Aryan; see -OUS] Syn. 1. See barbarian. 2. ferocious, inhuman, brutal. |
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