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单词 barbarous
释义
barbarous
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈbɑː.bər.əs/us
/ˈbɑːr.bɚ.əs/
extremelycruelorunpleasant, orfailingtoreachacceptablesocialstandards:
野蛮的；暴虐的；未开化的；粗野的
Hismurderwas anoutrageousand barbarousact.对他的谋杀是骇人听闻的野蛮行径。
How can theyforgivesuch barbarousbehaviour?他们怎么能原谅这样的野蛮行为？
Synonyms
barbaric
brutal
callous
cruel
despotic
hard(SEVERE)
harsh(UNKIND)
inhuman
savage
vicious
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
  • acerbic
  • acerbity
  • acidly
  • anti-cruelty
  • anti-humanitarian
  • cutthroat
  • fiendish
  • fiendishness
  • hard-hearted
  • harshly
  • nastiness
  • nasty
  • pitiless
  • pitilessly
  • pitilessness
  • unchristian
  • uncompassionate
  • unfeeling
  • ungenerous
  • ungenerously
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(Definition ofbarbarousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

barbarous| American Dictionary

barbarous
adjective
us
/ˈbɑr·bə·rəs/
characteristicofpeoplewho have noexperienceof thehabitsandcultureofmodernlife, and whosebehavioryouthereforeconsiderstrange
Barbarous alsomeansbarbaric.
(Definition ofbarbarousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbarbarous

barbarous
Like a true religion, the 'visible sign' triumphed over the world of 'wild andbarbarous' dialects.
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There are usages which he describes variously as "regrettable" or "vulgar" or "barbarous" or "monstrosities".
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He concludes that 'far from being relics of abarbarousage', fairs were resilient and adaptable with important retail and social functions.
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Hisbarbarousidols are horrific caricatures of the real thing.
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These virtues in a rude andbarbaroussociety are almost unknown.
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But the former was just thought of asbarbarous.
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First, there is the positing of an initial condition in which human societies are seen as rude andbarbarous.
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Advocates of the indianesque embraced pre-conquest history as an essential component of independent identity, while conservatives rejected it as abarbaroustime preceding the arrival of true civilisation.
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I have a feeling, however, that it may be an utterly revolting andbarbaroususage to anyone like yourself who has a finer feeling for language than we have.
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Longs and shorts will not have to make those cruel concessions, thosebarbaroussacrifices of which composers and singers, it must be admitted, take so little notice.
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All of these refer to jahiliyya as a historical period except - chap. 6, para. 112 ("ignorant"), and chap. 7, para. 67 (translated "barbarous", but the historical reference is implicit).
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Were my informants trying to put the best possible face on a local practice likely to appear 'barbarous' to a foreign interlocutor and so much at odds with mainstream practice?
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Thisbarbarousand, at the same time, grotesque regime must be contained.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We all repudiate the right of people to inflictbarbarousand inhuman punishment on their own children.
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The diggers continued in their brutal andbarbarousway.
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