What is another word for barbarisms?

Pronunciation: [bˈɑːbɑːɹˌɪzəmz] (IPA)

Barbarisms are words or expressions that are considered uncivilized or unrefined by society. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to connotate the same meaning as barbarisms. These include crudities, coarseness, uncouthness, boorishness, vulgarity, and indecency. These synonyms are often used to describe language or behavior that deviates from mainstream social norms or etiquette. It is important to note that these terms may be subjective and can vary based on cultural, historical, and personal contexts. Nonetheless, using appropriate language and behavior can enhance communication and promote respect among individuals and communities.

Synonyms for Barbarisms:

What are the hypernyms for Barbarisms?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    solecisms, figure of speech errors, language errors.

Usage examples for Barbarisms

But barbarisms may sometimes be used properly.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
"We are in the middle of the seventeenth century here, with all its barbarisms," said he.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
Great was the triumph of Dr. Dale, when, after another interval, he found their Latin full of barbarisms and blunders, at which a school-boy would have blushed.
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009

Famous quotes with Barbarisms

  • Los Angeles is the home of self-expression, but the artists are middle-class and middling-minded; no passions will calcify here for years in the gloom to be revealed a decade later as the tessellations of hard and fertile work. … In this land of the pretty-pretty, the virility is in the barbarisms, the vulgarities, it is in the huge billboards, the screamers of the neon lighting, the shouting farm-utensil colors of the gas stations and monster drugstores, it is in the swing of the sports cars, hot rods, convertibles.
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