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# barbarous

«barbarous» in Mova's school dictionary: **very cruel, savage or uncivilised, without pity for others** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Barbarous means very cruel, savage or uncivilised, without pity for others. It is a formal, rather old word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbarous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a barbarous ruler is cruel, and a hero stands up to stop him

### examples

- The king's barbarous laws made the people weep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbarous/#x1)
- Stop this barbarous practice at once! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbarous/#x2)
- It was a barbarous act to leave the old dog out in the cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbarous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barbarous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbarous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.