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The synonyms of “Barbarian” are: savage, boor, churl, goth, peasant, tike, tyke, brute, beast, wild man, wild woman, troglodyte, barbaric, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild, atheistic, unbelieving, agnostic, sceptical, heretical, faithless, godless, ungodly, unholy, impious, profane, infidel, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan, primitive, brutish, neanderthal
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “barbarian” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| beast | A cruelly rapacious person. Sex beasts who are assaulting victims. |
| boor | A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. At last the big obnoxious boor had been dealt a stunning blow for his uncouth and belligerent manner. |
| brute | A savagely violent person or animal. A great brute of a machine. |
| churl | A bad-tempered person. This trio are used whenever some churl wants to have a pop at progressive rock. |
| goth | A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. |
| peasant | A poor smallholder or agricultural labourer of low social status (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries. Peasants left the farms to work in industry. |
| savage | A representation of a bearded and semi-naked man with a wreath of leaves. The mother of one of the victims has described his assailants as savages. |
| tike | A young person of either sex. |
| troglodyte | Someone who lives in a cave. |
| tyke | An unpleasant or coarse man. Geordies and tykes have never got on particularly well. |
| wild man | A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition. |
| wild woman | A wild primitive state untouched by civilization. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “barbarian” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| agnostic | Of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism. Many common file formats JPEG MP3 etc are platform agnostic. |
| atheistic | Disbelieving or lacking belief in the existence of God. Atheistic scientists. |
| barbaric | Primitive; unsophisticated. Barbaric practices. |
| barbarous | Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. Avoiding barbarous sentences or ambiguities. |
| brutish | Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. Brutish behaviour. |
| faithless | Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor. Her faithless lover. |
| godless | Not believing in God. Humanity coming to terms with a godless world. |
| heathen | Relating to heathens. Heathen practices. |
| heathenish | Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam. |
| heretical | Holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted. Heretical beliefs. |
| idolatrous | Showing extreme admiration or reverence for something. America s idolatrous worship of the auto. |
| impious | Lacking piety or reverence for a god. Impious toward one s parents. |
| infidel | Adhering to a religion other than that of the majority. The infidel foe. |
| neanderthal | Relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man. |
| pagan | Relating to pagans or their beliefs. A pagan god. |
| primitive | Used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies. Primitive material of the universe. |
| profane | (of language) blasphemous or obscene. A profane person might be tempted to violate the tomb. |
| savage | Marked by extreme and violent energy. A savage attack on the government. |
| sceptical | Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. The public were deeply sceptical about some of the proposals. |
| unbelieving | Rejecting any belief in gods. Drew could only stand there wide eyed and unbelieving. |
| uncivilised | Without civilizing influences-Margaret Meade. |
| uncivilized | Without civilizing influences-Margaret Meade. They pitied us for leaving the Smoke for such uncivilized remoteness. |
| ungodly | Irreligious or immoral. Ungodly lives of lust and pleasure. |
| unholy | Sinful; wicked. A father killing his son is an act against nature unholy and loathsome. |
| wild | Produced from wild animals or plants without cultivation. Wild parties. |
| barbaric | Savagely cruel. Barbaric practices. |
| barbarous | Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. A remote and barbarous country. |
| brutal | Resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility. He spoke with brutal honesty. |
| cruel | Able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering. People who are cruel to animals. |
| draconian | Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws. The Nazis destroyed the independence of the press by a series of draconian laws. |
| external | Coming from the outside. He enjoyed the solemn externals of religion. |
| extrinsic | Not forming an essential part of a thing or arising or originating from the outside. Looking for extrinsic aid. |
| fell | The act of felling something as a tree. |
| ferocious | Marked by extreme and violent energy. A ferocious headache. |
| fiendish | Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell. A fiendish problem. |
| foreign | Not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source. Foreign currency. |
| import | Having important effects or influence. Pronouncements of world shaking import. |
| inhuman | Not human in nature or character. A babel of inhuman noises. |
| inhumane | Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion. Confining wild horses is inhumane. |
| intractable | Hard to control or deal with. The most intractable issue of our era. |
| out | Directed outward or serving to direct something outward. I ll leave them to fight it out. |
| outer | A shot that strikes the outer. The outer city bypass. |
| outside | The region that is outside of something. The dog was still barking outside. |
| pitiless | (especially of weather) unrelentingly harsh or severe. A night of pitiless rain. |
| primitive | A painting by a primitive artist or an object in a primitive style. Ohio primitives such as treenware utensils. |
| reprisal | The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. The threat of reprisal. |
| ruthless | Without mercy or pity. A ruthless manipulator. |
| sadistic | Deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another. She took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him. |
| savage | Subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally. The decision was a savage blow for the town. |
| truculence | Obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness. |
| truculent | Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant. A truculent speech against the new government. |
| uncivilized | Impolite; bad-mannered. Forgive me for my apparent rudeness it was most uncivilized of me. |
| untamed | Not domesticated or otherwise controlled. Her hair was a tumble of untamed curls. |
| untutored | Not formally taught or trained. An untutored genius. |
| vicious | Having the nature of vice. The dog was vicious and likely to bite. |
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