barbarian

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

1.
(not comparable)Relating to people, countries, or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
Đồng nghĩa: barbaric, barbarious, barbarous, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

barbarians

1.
(historical)A non-Greek or a non-Roman citizen.
2.
An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; usually associated with senseless violence and self-harm or other such shows of brute force and lack of mental faculty.
3.
(derogatory)A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
4.
(derogatory)Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
5.
A brutish warrior depicted in sword and sorcery and other fantasy works; typically clad in primitive furs or leather and usually favoring physical strength over intelligence while often possessing a bellicose temperament and disdain for laws.
6.
(derogatory)A cruel, savage, inhumane, brutal, violently aggressive person, particularly one who is unintelligent or dim-witted; one without pity or empathy.
7.
(derogatory)A foreigner, especially with barbaric qualities as in the above definitions.

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Đồng nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English barbarian, borrowed from barbarinus (Berber, pagan, foreigner), from Latin barbaria (foreign country), from barbarus (foreigner, savage), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (foreign, non-Greek, strange), possibly onomatopoeic (mimicking foreign languages, akin to English blah blah). Cognate to.