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Definition: Barbaric |
BarbaricAdjective1. 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". 2. Unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "barbaric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Barbaric, Barbarous. Barbaric refers to a people; barbarous to their low state of life and their habits of cruelty. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: BarbaricSynonyms: barbarian (adj), savage (adj), uncivilised (adj), uncivilized (adj), wild (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque;barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque; cockney, born within sound of Bow bells. |
Malevolence | Cruel; brutal, brutish; savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger; ferine, ferocious; inhuman; barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary; bloodthirsty; (murderous); atrocious; bloodyminded. |
Vulgarity | Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, |
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Crosswords: Barbaric |
| English words defined with "barbaric": Barbaresque ♦ crimson ♦ extant ♦ red ♦ violent. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "barbaric": Barbaic. (references) |
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Screenplays | That's barbaric! (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) It's barbaric. I was dreaming about my mother's sausages (Keeping the Faith; writing credit: Stuart Blumberg) | |
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 | Wild animal; lion; tiger; beast; beastly; bestial; vicious; barbaric; barbarian; barbarous; savage. |
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Denis Diderot | Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Bravery there was almost barbaric, and was mingled with a sort of heroic ferocity which began with the sacrifice of itself |
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Dennis Miller | The winners of history are those who sound their barbaric yawps over the rooftops of the world, while the losers are the ones who cannot express themselves without apology. |
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| "Barbaric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.21% of the time. "Barbaric" is used about 179 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.21% | 174 | 23,577 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.79% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 179 | N/A |
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Ending with "barbaric": baronial-barbaric. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
barbaric yawp | 5 |
barbaric | 3 |
slavko barbaric | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "barbaric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | barbaars. (various references) | |
Albanian | barbar (barbarian, barbarous, goth, gothic, heathen, Hun, vandal), i prapambetur (back, backward, fossil, laggard, lagger). (various references) | |
Arabic | همجي (barbarian, barbarous, bestial, heathen, hooligan, outlandish, ruffian, ruffianly, savage, skinhead, uncivil, uncivilised, undisciplined, wild), غير متمدن (barbarous, heathen, savage, uncivil, uncivilised), بربري (barbarian, insensate, moorish, savage). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шумен (bustling, clamorous, knockabout, loud, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, rackety, rambunctious, raucous, resounding, roaring, robustious, roistering, rollicking, rough and tumble, rowdy, rumbustious, slam-bang, slaphappy, smacking, tumultuary, tumultuous, turbulent, uproarious), варварски (barbarian, barbarous, feral, gothic, heathenish, inhuman), нецивилизован (uncivil, uncivilized), примитивен (primary, primitive, pristine, rude, uncouth, wild and woolly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 野蛮 (Barbarian, Barbarities, Barbarity, Barbarous, savage). (various references) | |
Czech | barbarský (barbarian, barbarous, heathen, savage, uncivilized). (various references) | |
Dutch | barbaars (cruel). (various references) | |
Esperanto | barbara. (various references) | |
Farsi | وحشیانه , وحشی (Barbarous, Brutal, Ferocious, Gross, Harebrained, Rambunctious, Ruffian, Ruttish, Savage, Truculent, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Undaunted, Ungovernable, Unshaped(En), Wild), بی ادب (Brusque, Coarse, Discourteous, Impolite, Indecorous, Irrespective, Irreverent, Lowbrow, Lowly, Plebeian, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Unmannered, Unmennerly), بربری . (various references) | |
Finnish | barbaarinen (barbarous). (various references) | |
French | barbare (barbarian, barbarous). (various references) | |
Frisian | barbaarsk. (various references) | |
German | barbarisch (barbarian, barbarianly, barbarically, barbarous, barbarously, brutal, savage, uncivilized). (various references) | |
Greek | βαρβαρικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ברברי (barbarian, savage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | primitív (primitive, rough, simplistic), műveletlen (barbarous, illiterate, savage, unframed), durva (broad, brusque, brutal, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, gross, harsh, hirsute, impious, insensible, offensive, ragged, ramage, Randy, robustic, rough, rude, scraggly, scraggy, scurrilous, stogy, uncouth), barbár (barbarian, barbarous, gothic, gothish, heathenish, inhuman, savage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | biadab (barbarian, barbarous, ill mannered, uncultured, uneducated). (various references) | |
Italian | barbaro (barbarian, barbarous, Hun, inhuman, savage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛮地 (barbaric region). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ば"ち (address, barbaric region, house number, savage land). (various references) | |
Korean | 미개한 (savage). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bárbaro. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbaricbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bárbaro (barbarian, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, larrikin, lawless, low-lived, ruffianly, tramontane, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, wild). (various references) | |
Romanian | barbar (barbarian, barbarous, goth, gothic, inhuman, savage). (various references) | |
Russian | грубый (bad, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), варварский (barbarian, barbarous, butcherly, gothic, heathenish, truculent, uncivilized, vandal). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | varvarski (barbarian, uncivilised), divljački (barbarian). (various references) | |
Spanish | bárbaro (barbarian, barbarous, cruel, fantastic, fantastical, gouache, grand, great, heathen, ripping, smashing, super). (various references) | |
Swedish | barbarisk (barbarous, gothic, savage, uncivilized). (various references) | |
Thai | ป่าเถื่อน (barbarous). (various references) | |
Turkish | barbar (barbarian, barbarous, bestial, goth, gothic, heathen, heathenish, savage, uncivilized, vandal, vandalic, wild). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, scratchy, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), варварський (barbarian, barbarous, gothic, heathenish, uncivilized, vandal, vandalistic), некультурний (barbarous, sloven, uncultivated), неотесаний (backwoods, bearish, chuffy, crude, home-bred, homely, oafish, ramshackle, woolly, wooly), первісний (aboriginal, antecedent, archetypal, initial, original, originary, primaeval, primal, prime, primeval, primitive). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | man rợ (savagely), dã man (barbarian, barbarous, barbarously, bestial, ferocious, inhumanly, sanguinary, savagely). (various references) | |
Welsh | anninasol (uncivil). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | barbarus, efferant, efferas, efferatis, efferent, effereris, efferes, efferet, efferetis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barbaric": barbarically. (additional references) | |
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"Barbaric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bamburi, Barari, Barbagia, Barbar, Barbares, barbari, barbaria, barbaris, barbarix, Barbaross, Barberi, Barbrak, Biberach, boracic, bourbaki. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "barbaric" (pronounced bÄrba"rik) |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, anthropocentric, atmospheric, Baldric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, cleric, concentric, Derrick, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, esoteric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, generic, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hemispheric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, metric, nitric, numeric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, tantric, vampiric, vitric. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-i-r-r" | |
-2 letters: arabic, bicarb. | |
-3 letters: abaci, acari, baric, briar, rabbi, rabic. | |
-4 letters: abba, abri, aria, baba, barb, birr, carb, carr, crab, crib, raia. | |
-5 letters: aba, air, arb, arc, baa, bar, bib, bra, brr, cab, car, ria, rib. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-c-i-r-r" | |
+4 letters: barbarically. | |
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