barbarian
Speech parts
1. barbarian - Noun
2. barbarian - Adjective
3. barbarian - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A foreigner.
A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
A person destitute of culture.
A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.
when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable.
Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire.