barbarous

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbɑːb(ə)rəs/

adjective

  • 1extremely brutal: many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards
  • 2primitive and uncivilized: a remote and barbarous country
  • (of language) coarse and unrefined: avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities

Derivatives

barbarously

adverb

barbarousness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in barbarous (sense 2)): via Latin from Greek barbaros 'foreign' + -ous