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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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venomous
English
Etymology
From Middle English venemous, venymous, from Anglo-Norman venimus, from venin. Cf. Latin ven?n?sus. Equivalent to venom +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?v?n?m?s/
Adjective
venomous (comparative more venomous, superlative most venomous)
- Full of venom.
- Toxic; poisonous.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- More venemous and much more virulent
Then any poy?oned tode, or any ?erpent.
- More venemous and much more virulent
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Noxious; evil.
- Malignant; spiteful; hateful.
- Producing venom (a toxin usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging) in glands or accumulating venom from food.
- powerful
Usage notes
See poisonous#Usage notes.
Synonyms
- noxious
- poisonous
- toxic
Antonyms
- non-venomous
Translations
References
- “venomous” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- venomous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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