barbarous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not classical or pure.
    — He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
  2. Uncivilized, uncultured.
    — [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
  3. Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
    — Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
  4. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
    — I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs / By the known rules of antient libertie, / When strait a barbarous noise environs me / Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs

词形变化

more barbarous comparative most barbarous superlative barbarouse alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
barbarously barbarousness hyperbarbarous nonbarbarous semibarbarous unbarbarous
相关词
barbarian barbaric

词源

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
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