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barbarous

 
Adjective barbarous has 2 senses
  1. barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious - (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"
    Antonym: humane (indirect, via inhumane)
  2. barbarous - primitive in customs and culture
    Antonyms:
    civilized, civilised (indirect, via noncivilized)
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