different between barbarous vs satanic

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)

1. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
2. 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.

3. 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

English

Pronunciation

• Homophone: seitanic
• (General American) IPA^(key): /se??tæn?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??tæn?k/

Adjective

satanic (comparative more satanic, superlative most satanic)

1. Alternative form of Satanic (of, pertaining to or resembling Satan).
2. Evil, fiendish, devilish or diabolical.
3. Of or pertaining to any form of Satanism.

Translations

See also

• Satanic

Anagrams

• Catsian, astacin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French satanique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?ta.nik/

Adjective

satanic m or n (feminine singular satanic?, masculine plural satanici, feminine and neuter plural satanice)

1. Satanic