barbarian (redirected from barbarianism)

bar·bar·i·an  (bär-bâr-n)

n.

1. A member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization.

2. A fierce, brutal, or cruel person.

3. An insensitive, uncultured person; a boor. See Synonyms at boor.

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[French barbarien, from barbare, barbarous, from Latin barbarus; see barbarous.]

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bar·bari·an adj.

bar·bari·an·ism n.

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barbarian [bɑːˈbɛərɪən]

n

1. (Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) a member of a primitive or uncivilized people

2. a coarse, insensitive, or uncultured person

3. a vicious person

adj

1. of an uncivilized culture

2. insensitive, uncultured, or brutal

[see barbarous]

barbarianism  n

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barbarian - Based on Greek barbaros, "stranger" or "enemy."

See also related terms for stranger.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	barbarian - a member of an uncivilized people     savage primitive, primitive person - a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater - a person who eats human flesh head-shrinker, headhunter - a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies hunter-gatherer - a member of a hunting and gathering society Vandal - a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455
	2.	barbarian - a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement boor, churl, Goth, tike, tyke, peasant disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
Adj.	1.	barbarian - without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes" barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, savage, wild noncivilised, noncivilized - not having a high state of culture and social development

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barbarian

noun

1. savage, monster, beast, brute, yahoo, swine, ogre, sadist Our maths teacher was a bully and a complete barbarian.

2. lout, hooligan, illiterate, vandal, yahoo, bigot, philistine, ned (Scot. slang), hoon (Austral. & N.Z.), ruffian, ignoramus, boor, boot boy, lowbrow, vulgarian The visitors looked upon us all as barbarians.

adjective

uncivilized, wild, rough, savage, crude, primitive, vulgar, illiterate, barbaric, philistine, uneducated, unsophisticated, barbarous, boorish, uncouth, uncultivated, lowbrow, uncultured, unmannered rude and barbarian people
uncivilized cultured, civil, sophisticated, refined, civilized, genteel, urbane, highbrow, well-mannered

Translations

barbarian [bɑːˈbɛərɪən]

A. ADJ → bárbaro

B. N → bárbaro/a m/f

barbarian [bɑː^rˈbɛərɪən]

n

(in history) (= foreigner) → barbare m

(pejorative) (= cruel person) → barbare m

(pejorative) (= uncultured person) → barbare m

adj

(in history) [tribe, horde] → barbare; [invasion] → barbare

(pejorative) [attitude] → barbare; [practice] → barbare

barbarian

n (Hist, fig) → Barbar(in) m(f)

adj (Hist, fig) → barbarisch

barbarian [bɑːˈbɛərɪən] n → barbaro/a