(n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
(n.) A person destitute of culture.
(n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
(a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is Iron Man as Conan: he may be a genius on Earth but when he meets advanced alien civilisations, they just see him as a cute little barbarian."
(2) Note the speed with which a delegation of 20 imams visited the Charlie Hebdo offices , branding the gunmen “criminals, barbarians, satans” and, crucially, “not Muslims”.
(3) These barbarians, they are murdering cartoonists for drawing cartoons they don’t like … murdering, killing, torturing Christians, Muslims, other religious minorities.
(4) He was already living in an empire in which the "barbarians" were not so barbaric anymore, but had been influenced by Roman civilisation for decades or even centuries, and were not a threat to the Roman " Leitkultur ".
(5) John Milius's Conan the Barbarian, from 1982, is considered the best film about Robert E Howard's Cimmerian warrior, and helped launched its star on the road to the Hollywood A-list.
(6) In the hands-on available in the Microsoft booth, players control the game's protagonist, Marius Titus, as he storms the beaches of Dover and lays waste to the Celtic barbarians he encounters.
(7) Samoa will complete their World Cup warm-up schedule by facing the Barbarians, who have already lined up matches against Ireland, England and Argentina.
(8) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(9) A former international rugby player, he played for Ireland, the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians and is the highest try scorer in the history of the Lions.
(10) Mao is supposed to have created order in the Chinese empire by kicking out the barbarians, punishing evil-doers, and restoring virtue.
(11) Trump's Warsaw speech pits western world against barbarians at the gates Read more The government describes the moves as a necessary means to speed up the process of issuing judgments and to break what it describes as the grip of a “privileged caste” of lawyers and judges.
(12) On sale: barbarian repellent, anti-robot fluid and opposable thumbs.
(13) He added: “We will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group.
(14) It is a great privilege for the Samoan rugby union to play the Barbarians in the run-up to Rugby World Cup 2015 ,” said the Samoa coach, Stephen Betham.
(15) Dawkins states: "A native speaker of English who has not read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian."
(16) The nadir came last week when Sarkozy's new immigration chief Arno Klarsfeld – the eldest son, ironically, of Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld – called for a wall to be built between Greece and Turkey to save Europe from barbarian invaders.
(17) Future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave them a chance to live.” The issue of women’s reproductive rights has been resuscitated in the Republican base in recent weeks after an undercover sting captured employees of Planned Parenthood, which offers a range of women’s health services, discussing the sale of fetal body parts following abortions.
(18) And in her 1951 opus magnum The Origins of Totalitarianism , from which the above quotations derive, she warned that "a global, universally interrelated civilisation may produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages".
(19) Male figures include a Constable, a Barbarian, a Mountain Climber (very heroic he is too) and an Island Warrior.
(20) We are delighted to add the Barbarians-Samoa match at the Olympic Stadium to our testing programme,” the England Rugby 2015 chief executive said.
Barbarize
Definition:
(v. i.) To become barbarous.
(v. i.) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
(v. t.) To make barbarous.
Example Sentences:
(1) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(2) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
(3) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
(4) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(5) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(6) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(7) Alexis Tsipras, the former student radical who leads the party, has called the latest €130bn rescue plan "barbaric" and "an agreement of poverty and wretchedness".
(8) The "might is right" alternative – the playground resort to "brute force" recalling Europe's past "descent into barbarism" – was no alternative at all.
(9) On Thursday, the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, had described the massacre as a “barbaric crime”, and said it was being looked at as a hate crime.
(10) And as Kelly observed, Walker’s position is massively unpopular, and for good reason: the idea that a woman should be coerced by the state to carry a pregnancy to term even at the risk of her life is the purest barbarism.
(11) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
(12) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(13) An hour-long chronology of barbarism that the group posted online in June featured an opening sequence copied straight from the 2009 film about the Iraq war, The Hurt Locker .
(14) None of those medical manuscripts from that collection was preserved after a barbaric setting fire on the Oriental Institute.
(15) "Barbarism," wrote Alain Finkielkraut not long ago, "is not the inheritance of our pre-history.
(16) London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said there would be more police on the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the “barbaric and sickening attack”.
(17) Anyone in any doubt about this organisation [Isis] can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is.
(18) These barbaric terrorists have lost 30% of the territory they once held in Iraq.
(19) His barbarism against his own people created an enormous vacuum.
(20) The ruling African National Congress's youth league described the video as "barbaric".