barbaric• Wine was carefully mixed with water, because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric.• We consider the death penalty to be barbaric.• Is the Buddhist practice any less barbaric?• Attack and reprisal-increasingly barbaric and brutal by turn-have marked the conflict since then.• This procedure, as barbaric as it is, is not done by governments.• Until recently, the great objective was to free the peasants from the barbaricconstraints of Nature.• a barbariccustom• The river was despotic and barbaric, ruling over its subjects without mercy.• the barbarictreatment of civilians in the concentrationcamps• the barbaric treatment of women prisoners• Most of them were from the barbarictribes nearer the frozenHub, which had a sort of export trade in heroes.
Originbarbaric
(1300-1400)Old Frenchbarbarique, from Latin, from Greek, from barbaros; → BARBAROUS