Antonym: civilized. Similar words: barbaric, barber, baron, baroque, barbed wire, barometer, arouse, aroused. Meaning: ['bɑːbərəs] 
adj. 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering 2. primitive in customs and culture.
adj. 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering 2. primitive in customs and culture. 
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1. It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
2. His murder was an outrageous and barbarous act.
3. It is barbarous to call at 5 a.m.
4. He thought the poetry of Whitman barbarous.
5. How can they forgive such barbarous behaviour?
6. The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane.
7. The barbarous soldiers ravished the country women.
8. They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities.
9. Of course we live in less barbarous times.
10. Many early child-rearing practices were barbarous by modern standards.
11. It might well be barbarous on either side of the jeweled door.
12. She'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture, and of prisoners who were never seen again.
13. To civilize the barbarous people is not easy.
14. Present times are "barbarous, " she said.
15. She received the most barbarous treatment.
16. Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.
17. We protested strongly against such barbarous aggression.
18. The best human intelligence is still decidedly barbarous.
19. It was barbarous to be happy when Edmund was suffering.
20. All of the barbarous conquerors have been apt to carry matters with a high hand.
21. They will also say that the Faroese method of killing whales is a barbarous way of treating an intelligent, warm-blooded mammal.
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22. He saw it now as his mission to establish similar normality in a barbarous land.
23. Still less was he interested in what he considered the barbarous traditions of the Anglo-Saxon Church which he found on his arrival.
24. Earl Granville, in his recent speech in London, that the finger and sign language was barbarous.
25. When the Persian ambassadors arrived at Athens, demanding tribute in their barbarous tongue, my heart filled with fury.
26. In many cases, perhaps, it simply meant that clergy and people were equally barbarous.
27. In "The Intellectual Beast Is Dangerous", Brecht asserts: "A beast is something strong, terrible, devastating; the word emits a barbarous sound."
28. Perhaps the preternaturally civilized Boskops had no chance against our barbarous ancestors, but could be leaders of society if they were among us today.
29. A hundred million Christians were under the heel of the most barbarous tyranny in history: the Bolshevik regime of the greatest terrorist of them all, Joseph Stalin.
30. Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism [the barbarous name of the correct party].