barbarous
adjective
1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- a barbarous crime
Similar word(s): inhumane, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
2. primitive in customs and culture
Similar word(s): noncivilised, noncivilized
Sentences with barbarous as an adjective:
- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggsBy the known rules of antient libertie,When strait a barbarous noise environs meOf Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)