a. 野蛮的, 残暴的, 粗野的

Barbarous \Bar"ba*rous\, a. [L. barbarus, Gr. ba`rbaros,
strange, foreign; later, slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L.
balbus stammering, Skr. barbara stammering, outlandish. Cf.
{Brave}, a.]
1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude;
peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a
barbarous country.

2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. [Obs.]

Barbarous gold. --Dryden.

3. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.

By their barbarous usage he died within a few days,
to the grief of all that knew him. --Clarendon.

4. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.

A barbarous expression --G. Campbell.

Syn: Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored;
ignorant; merciless; brutal. See {Ferocious}.