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[bɑːˈbarɪk], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- savagely cruel
(e.g: he carried out barbaric acts in the name of war)
- primitive; unsophisticated
(e.g: the barbaric splendour he found in civilizations since destroyed)
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Origin
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late Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘a barbarian’): from Old French barbarique, or via Latin from Greek barbarikos, from barbaros ‘foreign’ (especially with reference to speech)
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