barbaric
Cruel and primitive
Barbaric describes behavior or conditions that are brutal, crude, or shockingly uncivilized: barbaric treatment of prisoners, barbaric living conditions.
The word implies a violation of basic standards of human decency.
It can also describe something primitive or unsophisticated in a way that suggests savagery: barbaric customs.
Unlike barbarous, barbaric sometimes carries a note of fierce grandeur: barbaric splendor.
Showing no clemency
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- inhumanDevoid of mercy
- viciousCruelly aggressive in nature
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
heartless · pitiless · savage · sadistic · monstrous · callous · cold-blooded · bloodthirsty
Wild after domestication
- untamedNot domesticated
- savageFierce and untamed
- bestialResembling a savage creature
- animalisticResembling brute nature
brutish · fierce · unrestrained · lawless · chaotic · unbridled · uncivilized · uncontrolled
Lacking good manners
rude · unrefined · rough · ill-bred · uncivil · churlish · loutish · philistine
Of a clan
- ancientVery old indeed
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
- stone-agePre-metalworking human era
hunter-gatherer · nomadic · primal · primordial · ancestral · aboriginal · early · pre-modern
merciless
Showing no clemency
ruthless · heartless · pitiless · savage · sadistic · monstrous · callous · cold-blooded · bloodthirsty · ferocious
feral
Wild after domestication
animalistic · brutish · fierce · unrestrained · lawless · chaotic · unbridled · uncivilized · uncontrolled · primal
uncouth
Lacking good manners
coarse · rude · unrefined · rough · ill-bred · uncivil · churlish · loutish · philistine · uncultured
tribal
Of a clan
- ancientVery old indeed
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- archaicBelonging to earlier times
stone-age · hunter-gatherer · nomadic · primal · primordial · ancestral · aboriginal · early · pre-modern · undeveloped
barbariccivilized
Socially developed and refined
civilised · cultured · enlightened · refined · advanced
barbarichumane
Marked by kindness
compassionate · merciful · kind · gentle · benevolent
- Santa BarbaraCalifornia mission city
- barbarian tribesPeoples outside civilization's borders
- Barbara Walters
- Barbara McClintock
- Barbara Bush
- Barbara Stanwyck
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