barbarian | | |
n. (person) | 1. barbarian, savage | a member of an uncivilized people. |
| ~ primitive, primitive person | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. |
| ~ anthropophagite, anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater | a person who eats human flesh. |
| ~ head-shrinker, headhunter | a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies. |
| ~ hunter-gatherer | a member of a hunting and gathering society. |
| ~ vandal | a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455. |
| ~ odoacer, odovacar, odovakar | Germanic barbarian leader who ended the Western Roman Empire in 476 and became the first barbarian ruler of Italy (434-493). |
n. (person) | 2. barbarian, boor, churl, goth, peasant, tike, tyke | a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement. |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
adj. | 3. barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild | without civilizing influences.; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"; "wild tribes" |
| ~ noncivilised, noncivilized | not having a high state of culture and social development. |
Recent comments
6 days 2 hours ago
3 weeks 6 days ago
5 weeks 5 days ago
13 weeks 14 hours ago
15 weeks 4 days ago
17 weeks 17 hours ago
17 weeks 22 hours ago
17 weeks 2 days ago
22 weeks 4 days ago
22 weeks 4 days ago