Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.
Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.
Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.
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