0 extremely cruel or unpleasant, or failing to reach acceptable social standards:
His murder was an outrageous and barbarous act.
1 characteristic of people who have no experience of the habits and culture of modern life, and whose behavior you therefore consider strange
Like a true religion, the 'visible sign' triumphed over the world of 'wild and barbarous' dialects.
There are usages which he describes variously as "regrettable" or "vulgar" or "barbarous" or "monstrosities".
He concludes that 'far from being relics of a barbarous age', fairs were resilient and adaptable with important retail and social functions.
His barbarous idols are horrific caricatures of the real thing.
These virtues in a rude and barbarous society are almost unknown.
But the former was just thought of as barbarous.
First, there is the positing of an initial condition in which human societies are seen as rude and barbarous.
Advocates of the indianesque embraced pre-conquest history as an essential component of independent identity, while conservatives rejected it as a barbarous time preceding the arrival of true civilisation.
