barbarous
Adjective Satellite
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
- "a barbarous crime"
- primitive in customs and culture
Adj
- Not classical or pure.
- Uncivilized, uncultured.
- Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
- Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Origin / Etymology
Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).
Scrabble Score: 13
barbarous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbarbarous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
barbarous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
barbarous: valid Words With Friends Word