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barbarous
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) barbarouse
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??(?)b???s/
Adjective
barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)
- (said of language) Not classical or pure.
- uncivilized, uncultured
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
- 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 - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)
Derived terms
- barbarously
- barbarousness
Related terms
- barbarian
- barbaric
Translations
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maddened
English
Verb
maddened
- simple past tense and past participle of madden
Anagrams
- demanded
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