barbarous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++bar·bar·ous /ˈbɑːbərəs $ ˈbɑːr-/ adjective 1 CRUELextremely cruel in a way that is shocking 非常残忍的，凶残的 SYN barbaric The trade in exotic birds is barbarous. 买卖奇异鸟类是很残忍的。2 NATURALwild and not civilized 野蛮的，未开化的，粗鄙的 a savage barbarous people 凶猛野蛮的民族 —barbarously adverb
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barbarous• In many cases, perhaps, it simply meant that clergy and people were equally barbarous.• He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.• It might well be barbarous on either side of the jeweled door.• Of course we live in less barbarous times.• When the Persian ambassadors arrived at Athens, demanding tribute in their barbarous tongue, my heart filled with fury.• Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival.• They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent, warm-blooded mammal.Origin barbarous (1400-1500) Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros “foreign”bar·bar·ous adjectiveChineseSyllable
way is that in a shocking extremely cruel Corpus
barbarous
bar‧bar‧ous /ˈbɑːbərəs $ ˈbɑːr-/
adjective
SYN barbaric:
The trade in exotic birds is barbarous.
2. wild and not civilized:
a savage barbarous people
—barbarously adverb
bar‧bar‧ous /ˈbɑːbərəs $ ˈbɑːr-/
adjective Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: barbarus, from Greek barbaros 'foreign'
1. extremely cruel in a way that is shocking Language: Latin
Origin: barbarus, from Greek barbaros 'foreign'
SYN barbaric:
2. wild and not civilized:
—barbarously adverb