barbaric

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English barbarik, from Old French barbarique (“barbarous”), from Latin barbaricus, from Ancient Greek βαρβαρικός (barbarikós, “barbaric, savage, fierce”), from βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “barbarian”) +‎ -ικός (-ikós, adjective suffix). See βάρβαρος (bárbaros) for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbæɹɪk/, /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbɛɹɪk/

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Adjective

barbaric (comparative more barbaric, superlative most barbaric)

1. of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth

   Antonym: nonbarbaric

   a barbaric attack on a doctor in a hospital

Derived terms

• barbarically
• mixo-barbaric
• non-barbaric
• semibarbaric

 

Translations

uncivilised

Albanian: i barbar (sq), i paqytetëruar (sq) Arabic: هَمَجِيّ (hamajiyy), مُتَوَحِّش (ar) (mutawaḥḥiš) Armenian: բարբարոսական (hy) (barbarosakan) Azerbaijani: barbar, vəhşi (az) Belarusian: ва́рварскі (várvarski), ба́рбарскі (bárbarski), барбары́нскі (barbarýnski), дзі́кі (dzíki), дзіку́нскі (dzikúnski) Bulgarian: ва́рварски (bg) (várvarski), див (bg) (div) Chinese: Mandarin: 野蠻／野蛮 (zh) (yěmán), 殘暴／残暴 (zh) (cánbào), 粗野 (zh) (cūyě) Czech: barbarský (cs) Danish: barbarisk Dutch: barbaars (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: barbaarne Finnish: raakalaismainen (fi), barbaarinen (fi) French: barbare (fr) Galician: bárbaro m Georgian: ბარბაროსული (barbarosuli) German: barbarisch (de) Greek: βάρβαρος (el) (várvaros), βαρβαρικός (el) (varvarikós) Ancient: βαρβαρικός (barbarikós) Hebrew: בַּרְבָּרִי (he) (barbári) Hungarian: barbár (hu) Irish: barbartha, danartha, ainchríostúil Italian: barbarico (it), barbaro (it) Japanese: 野蛮な (ja) (やばんな, yaban na) Kazakh: варвар (varvar), варварлық (varvarlyq) Korean: 야만(野蠻)의 (yaman-ui) Kyrgyz: варвар (ky) (varvar) Latvian: barbarisks Lithuanian: barbariškas Macedonian: варварски (varvarski) Malayalam: പ്രാകൃത (ml) (prākr̥ta), കിരാത (kirāta) Norwegian: Bokmål: barbarisk Nynorsk: barbarisk Persian: وحشیانه (fa) (vahšiyâne), وحشی (fa) (vahši), بربری (fa) (barbari) Polish: barbarzyński (pl) Portuguese: bárbaro (pt) Romanian: barbar (ro) Russian: ва́рварский (ru) (várvarskij), ди́кий (ru) (díkij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ба̀рбарскӣ, ва̀рварскӣ Roman: bàrbarskī (sh), vàrvarskī (sh) Slovak: barbarský Slovene: barbarski (sl) Spanish: barbárico (es), bárbaro (es) Swedish: barbarisk (sv) Tajik: ваҳшиёна (vahšiyona), ваҳшӣ (tg) (vahši), барбарӣ (barbari) Turkish: barbar (tr) Ukrainian: ва́рварський (uk) (várvarsʹkyj), ди́кий (dýkyj), дику́нський (dykúnsʹkyj) Uzbek: vahshiyona (uz), vahshiy (uz) Vietnamese: dã man (vi) (野蠻)