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pin, needle, bristle, spine, quill, spicule, Zool. spiculum; spur, gaff, spike, prong, tine; snag, jag, tooth, notch; cusp, nib, acumination, point, tip.
2. insult, affront, contumely; dig, cut, quip, slap in the face; gibe, jape, jeer, sneer, scoff.
3. Also
barbe (all of clothing) dicky, bib, vestee, vest, waist, insert; scarf, cravat, muffler, necktie, neckband, Obs. neckcloth.
-v.4. spur, spike, prong; sharpen, acuminate, tip, Brit. nib.
barbarian, adj. 1. primitive, rude, wild; rough, rugged, coarse, gross, vulgar; gruff, bearish, boorish, crass, rustic, ill-bred, churlish, clodhopping, Archaic. carlish; loutish, doltish, cloddish, oafish; uncivil, unrefined, uncouth, inurbane, unpolished; uncultivated, uncivilized, philistine, unmannered, ill-mannered, ungentlemanly, ungentle, uncourtly, inelegant, indelicate.
2. foreign, alien, peregrine; tramontane, transmon-tane, ultramontane, transalpine; ultramarine, transmarine, transatlantic, transpacific; exotic, strange, outlandish.
-n. 3. brute, savage, hellkite; Yahoo, wild man, ogre, monster, troglodyte; Vandal, Goth, Hun, Tartar.
4. philistine, lowbrow, ignoramus; boor, rustic, churl, dolt, lout, clod, oaf, Archaic, carl; bumpkin, yokel, SI. rube, SI. hick, Disparaging, bogtrotter, hobnail, Inf. hayseed, kern, yahoo, SI. lug.
5. foreigner, alien, outsider; stranger, tramontane, outlander; immigrant, emigrant, newcomer; heathen, pagan, gentile.
barbaric, adj. 1. primitive, rude, wild, uncivilized. See - barbarian (def. 1).
2. ferocious, fierce, savage, ruthless, vicious, fell, truculent; untamed, wild, undomesticated, unbroken; feral, ferine, wolfish, lupine, beastly, bestial, Obs. belluine; brutal, inhuman, barbarous, hellish, Tartarian, Hunnish, Vandalic, Gothic; brutish, murderous, homicidal, slaughterous, bloodthirsty; sadistic, animalistic, cannibalistic, fiendish, ogreish; diabolical, demonic, demoniac, devilish; terrible, harsh, grim, severe; unrelenting, relentless, remorseless, implacable, inexorable, grinding.
3. pitiless, merciless, heartless, unkind, inhumane; cruel, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted, cold-blooded.
4. gaudy, ostentatious, showy, pretentious, meretricious, florid, ornate; flamboyant, flashy, garish, glittering, loud, conspicuous, boisterous; vulgar, bedizened, tawdry, specious, cheap, tinsel, gimcrack.
barbarism, n. 1. crudity, coarseness, vulgarity; unenlightenment, uncivilizedness. See - barbarity (def. 3).
2. atrocity, outrage, enormity. See - barbarity (def. 2).
3. misuse, misusage, misapplication, error, infelicity, Obs. ill-usage; catachresis, solecism, Rhet. antiphrasis, cacology, caconym; anachronism, archaism, mala-propism, spoonerism, slip, blunder, SI. blooper; slang, vulgarism, corruption.
barbarity, n. 1. cruelty, viciousness, ruthlessness; ferocity, fierceness, savagery, ferity, truculence, fellness; brutality, brutishness, barbarism, inhumanity; pitilessness, mercilessness, heartlessness, unkindness, hard-heartedness; relentlessness, remorselessness, implacability, inexorability; murderousness, bloodthirstiness, cold-bloodedness; harshness, severity, grimness, dreadfulness; flagrancy, heinousness, nefariousness, shamelessness; sadism, animalism, cannibalism, fiendishness, deviltry, diablery.
2. atrocity, outrage, enormity, depravity, Archaic. immaneness; slaughter, carnage, butchery, massacre, bloodletting; killing, murder, assassination, homicide; torture, torment, persecution, oppression; destruction, vandalism, pillage, depredation, ruination.
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