barbarous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not classical or pure.

   • He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
   • The original Turkish tongue was somewhat barbarous, but extremely forcible and concise when spoken.
2. 2

   Uncivilized, uncultured.

   • [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.
   • 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. 3

   Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.

   • Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.
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   1. 4

      Like a barbarian, especially in sound

      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

The neighborhood

• neighborbarbarian
• neighborbarbaric