barbarized
Rendered crude, brutal
Barbarized is the past tense of barbarize, meaning to make barbarous or uncivilized.
The word typically describes a process of cultural degradation—standards lowered, refinements lost, crudeness introduced: The invaders barbarized the conquered territories.
It can also mean to corrupt a language by introducing foreign or improper elements: Latin was gradually barbarized in the provinces.
Fierce and untamed
- mercilessShowing no clemency
- cruelWillfully causing suffering
- viciousCruelly aggressive in nature
- ruthlessLacking any compassion
violent · brutish · pitiless · bloodthirsty · harsh · inhuman · feral · bestial
Contaminated, made impure
- defiledMade foul or impure
- pervertedMorally corrupted or distorted
- debasedReduced in worth
- adulteratedDiluted with inferior substances
contaminated · polluted · degraded · desecrated · profaned · distorted · warped · falsified
In earliest form
- uncouthLacking good manners
- unculturedLacking refinement or education
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
- coarseRough in texture
boorish · rough · philistine · heathen · wild · untamed · unrefined · unsophisticated
savage
Fierce and untamed
ruthless · violent · brutish · pitiless · bloodthirsty · harsh · inhuman · feral · bestial · animalistic
tainted
Contaminated, made impure
adulterated · contaminated · polluted · degraded · desecrated · profaned · distorted · warped · falsified · misrepresented
primitive
In earliest form
- uncouthLacking good manners
- unculturedLacking refinement or education
- crudeUnpolished, raw state
coarse · boorish · rough · philistine · heathen · wild · untamed · unrefined · unsophisticated · loutish
barbarizedcivilized
Socially developed and refined
cultivated · refined · polished · sophisticated · educated
barbarizedcivilizing
Making more refined
acculturated · ennobled · uplifted · improved · developed