barbarous

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- a barbarous crime
- brutal beatings
- cruel tortures
- Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
- a savage slap
- vicious kicks
• Syn:
brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious
• Similar to:
inhumane
• Derivationally related forms:
viciousness (for: vicious), savage (for: savage), savageness (for: savage), cruelness (for: cruel), brutality (for: brutal), barbarousness
2. primitive in customs and culture
• Similar to:
noncivilized, noncivilised

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious