Barbarous — Defs

01 a. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

1.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
2.
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.]
“Barbarous gold.” — Dryden.
3.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
“By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him.” — Clarendon.
4.
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
“A barbarous expression” — G. Campbell.