adjective
- extremely cruel, violent, or brutal
- lacking culture, refinement, or education; primitive
Examples
- The barbaric treatment of prisoners shocked the international community.
- Many considered the public execution a barbaric practice.
- The tribe’s barbaric customs seemed strange to the anthropologists.
- His barbaric behavior at the dinner party embarrassed his family.
- The barbaric destruction of ancient artifacts was condemned worldwide.
- She found their barbaric rituals difficult to understand.
- The barbaric conditions in the prison violated human rights.