Definition for Barbarous:

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

Synonyms for Barbarous:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • roughshod,
  • fell.
  •barbarian (adjective)
  • lowbrow.
  •brutal (adjective)
  • carnal,
  • rough,
  • bestial,
  • coarse,
  • gross,
  • inhuman.
  •crude, savage (adjective)
  • heartless,
  • uncivil,
  • unsophisticated,
  • wild,
  • ignorant,
  • wicked,
  • atrocious,
  • vulgar,
  • uncouth.
  •discourteous (adjective)
  • caddish,
  • impolite,
  • contemptuous,
  • brash,
  • tactless,
  • impertinent,
  • ill-mannered,
  • crude,
  • discourteous,
  • disrespectful.
  •inelegant (adjective)
  • clumsy,
  • undignified,
  • awkward,
  • gawky,
  • inelegant,
  • raw,
  • unrefined,
  • tawdry,
  • earthy,
  • boorish,
  • unpolished.
  •sectarian (adjective)
  • dissenting,
  • heathen,
  • factional,
  • sectarian,
  • heterodox,
  • bohemian,
  • atheistic,
  • demonical,
  • non-Christian,
  • animalistic,
  • nonreligious,
  • idolatrous,
  • iconoclastic,
  • Fetishistic,
  • nonorthodox,
  • heretic,
  • unchristian,
  • pagan,
  • unscriptural,
  • pantheistic,
  • unorthodox,
  • non-believing,
  • nonconforming.

• adv

  •beastly (adverb)
  • Ferine,
  • brutish.

• n.

  •
  • awful,
  • uncharitable,
  • hard,
  • monstrous.
  •
  • illiterate,
  • primitive,
  • uneducated.
  •barbarous (noun)
  • noncivilized,
  • noncivilised.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • homicidal,
  • sanguinary,
  • uncultured,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • thuggish,
  • remorseless,
  • mountainous.
  •
  • poor,
  • severe,
  • disorderly,
  • ugly,
  • full-frontal,
  • riotous.
  •
  • bloody,
  • violently,
  • murderous,
  • raging.
  •
  • violent.
  •
  • tough.
  •medieval
  • gothic.
  •Other relevant words:
  • crook,
  • devastating,
  • satanic,
  • homely,
  • open space,
  • venal,
  • countrified,
  • venomous,
  • cloddish,
  • peculiar,
  • subhuman,
  • beast,
  • disgusting,
  • demonic,
  • extraterrestrial,
  • fields,
  • unsparing,
  • clownish,
  • crazed,
  • deadly,
  • frenzied,
  • provincial,
  • exterior,
  • profligate,
  • unscholarly,
  • cruelty,
  • most,
  • Clodhopping,
  • odd,
  • barbarism,
  • unsympathetic,
  • impartially,
  • unbending,
  • Fiendly,
  • repellent,
  • ruffian,
  • gruesome,
  • execrable,
  • animal,
  • abominable,
  • culprit,
  • far-out,
  • unaesthetic,
  • nasty,
  • Fiendlike,
  • border,
  • antagonistic,
  • pugnacious,
  • truly,
  • heavy-handed,
  • people,
  • unliterary,
  • unfeeling,
  • poisonous,
  • horrid,
  • insane,
  • cacophonous,
  • asymmetric,
  • waste,
  • rather,
  • inconsiderate,
  • enough,
  • entirely,
  • Slavering,
  • vile,
  • uncombed,
  • inexorable,
  • horrific,
  • unseemly,
  • bounds,
  • gory,
  • belligerent,
  • fairly,
  • unhuman,
  • uncontrollable,
  • in bad taste,
  • impure,
  • horrendous,
  • indecorous,
  • unedified,
  • heinous,
  • perverted,
  • absolutely,
  • bizarre,
  • mannered,
  • exactly,
  • illiberal,
  • misinformed,
  • moderately,
  • harsh,
  • villainous,
  • loutish,
  • bloody-minded,
  • horrifying,
  • bloodyminded,
  • hideous,
  • different,
  • intrusive,
  • ill-educated,
  • fatal,
  • completely,
  • Anthropophagous,
  • incendiary,
  • unbooked,
  • unintellectual,
  • low,
  • backward,
  • fantastic,
  • rough-and-ready,
  • nonintellectual,
  • shameful,
  • diabolical,
  • singular,
  • impetuous,
  • unshapen,
  • external,
  • stiff,
  • honestly,
  • artificial,
  • unbookish,
  • Euphuistic,
  • unmoved,
  • feral,
  • unprincipled,
  • combative,
  • unpleasant,
  • ungovernable,
  • exceptional,
  • churlish,
  • hooligan,
  • felon,
  • wildness,
  • Uncourtly,
  • hostile,
  • lethal,
  • desert,
  • destructive,
  • ungraceful,
  • Deceived,
  • heathenish,
  • Troglodytic,
  • formal,
  • draconian,
  • Outland,
  • edge,
  • shameless,
  • oafish,
  • raving,
  • very,
  • really,
  • scrappy,
  • faulty,
  • quaint,
  • heavy,
  • barbarically,
  • bully,
  • unguided,
  • area,
  • alien,
  • unearthly,
  • benighted,
  • nefarious,
  • malign,
  • scathing,
  • hoodwinked,
  • nightmarish,
  • flagitious,
  • ghastly,
  • shapeless,
  • philistine,
  • god-awful,
  • extraneous,
  • passionate,
  • cretinous,
  • unfamiliar,
  • led astray,
  • purely,
  • insensitive,
  • sinful,
  • furious,
  • improper,
  • unharmonious,
  • reprehensible,
  • horrible,
  • degrading,
  • camp,
  • irrational,
  • loose,
  • dreadful,
  • weird,
  • strange,
  • rascal,
  • uncivilised,
  • Unlicked,
  • infamous,
  • quite,
  • uninstructed,
  • unpitying,
  • nauseous,
  • grisly,
  • unforgiving,
  • obstreperous,
  • unlovely,
  • open country,
  • base,
  • plebeian,
  • boundary,
  • ungracious,
  • predatory,
  • curious,
  • dysphemistic,
  • degraded,
  • turgid,
  • mortal,
  • greatly,
  • unholy,
  • devilish,
  • inflexible,
  • Stony-hearted,
  • Unfashioned,
  • bad-tempered,
  • careless,
  • kinky,
  • somewhat,
  • Fiendish,
  • cannibalistic,
  • Cruel-hearted,
  • frightful,
  • slipshod,
  • unspeakable,
  • barbarousness,
  • eccentric,
  • untamed,
  • repulsive,
  • Barbaresque,
  • flinty,
  • surly,
  • odious,
  • degenerate,
  • thoughtless,
  • unlearned,
  • unschooled,
  • ulterior,
  • unmerciful,
  • unknown,
  • deathly,
  • dangerous,
  • Boundaries,
  • doggerel,
  • Incondite,
  • amoral,
  • neanderthal,
  • unlettered,
  • formless,
  • unread,
  • queer,
  • immoral,
  • freakish,
  • infelicitous,
  • unformed,
  • foreign-born,
  • dry,
  • Tameless,
  • Semibarbaric,
  • Brutalized,
  • demoniacal,
  • unshaped,
  • bumpkin,
  • grotesque,
  • virulent,
  • callous,
  • unique,
  • Solecistic,
  • amorphous,
  • diabolic,
  • ungentle,
  • unprocessed,
  • brute,
  • ponderous,
  • abrupt,
  • unrelenting,
  • unheard-of,
  • Grammarless,
  • Inconcinnous,
  • imprecise,
  • bellicose,
  • malevolent,
  • forced,
  • Bookless,
  • wilderness,
  • cramped,
  • countryside,
  • ghoulish,
  • physical,
  • unbriefed,
  • erroneous,
  • barbarity,
  • offbeat,
  • depraved,
  • revolting,
  • Draconic,
  • unkindly,
  • iniquitous,
  • ill-tempered,
  • uncompassionate,
  • corrupt,
  • exotic,
  • unkempt,
  • limit,
  • barbarously,
  • malignant,
  • sanguineous,
  • blackguard,
  • misinstructed,
  • rustic,
  • rowdy,
  • contentious,
  • labored,
  • unstudious,
  • incorrect,
  • condemnable,
  • affected,
  • tyrannical,
  • outside,
  • appalling,
  • slovenly,
  • bad,
  • cockney,
  • functionally illiterate,
  • brutality,
  • untaught,
  • foreign,
  • unattractive,
  • snobbish,
  • cold,
  • extraordinary,
  • sullen,
  • perimeter,
  • mean,
  • racking,
  • homespun,
  • indifferent,
  • aboriginal,
  • infernal,
  • unsymmetric,
  • halting,
  • nauseating,
  • relentless,
  • unusual,
  • extrinsic,
  • slaughterous,
  • well,
  • warlike,
  • vehement,
  • Mistaught,
  • ill-proportioned,
  • righteously,
  • flagrant,
  • highly,
  • evil,
  • vandal,
  • convict.

Paraphrases for Barbarous:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    barbaric, brutal, barbarian.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    barbaric, barbarity, barbarian.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    heinous, cruel, vicious, horrendous, outrageous, savage, ferocious, brute, egregious, inhuman, monstrous, callous, odious, inhumane, appalling, horrific, ruthless, brutish, gruesome, dreadful, horrible, harsh, uncivilized.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    brutality, savage.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    barbarism, atrocious.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    barbarism, savagery.

Antonyms for Barbarous:

• adj.

  • crude, savage
    cultured, refined, civilized, considerate, sophisticated, humane, kind, polite, compassionate, polished, educated, inoffensive, gentle, sympathetic, merciful, feeling, nice.
  • Other antonyms:
    clement, urbane, benign, civilised, warm, enlightened, lenient, pitying, charitable, peaceful, courtly, graceful, elegant, well-bred, pacific, delicate, peaceable.

Homophones for Barbarous:

• barbarise, barbarossa, barbaric, beaverbrook, berberis, barbarize.