Bär'ba-roŭs, a.

a. [Lat. barbarus.] 1. Uncivilized or savage; coarse; rough; as, the conquered became as barbarous as the conquerors. Then art a Roman; be not barbarous. Shak. 2. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as, barbarous treatment. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon. Syn. — Uncivilized; unlettered; uncultivated; untutored; ignorant; cruel; ferocious; inhuman; brutal. See FEROCIOUS.