barbarousness
61inhumanity — n cruelty, cruelness, brutality, brutishness; barbarity, barbarousness, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, savageness, truculence; atrocity, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, cold bloodedness; viciousness, malice, maliciousness, malevolence, ill will …
62monstrosity — n 1. monstrousness, freakishness, nightmarishness, horribleness; ghoulishness, fiendishness, brutishness, demoniac, devilishness; miscreancy, villainy; murderousness, barbarousness, barbarity, butchery, savageness, savagery, slaughterousness. 2.… …
63ruthlessness — n mercilessness, pitilessness, heartlessly, unkindness, hard heartedness; relentlessness, re morselessness, implacability, inexorability, uncompas sionateness, unforgivingness; unfeelingness, coldness, inflexibility, hardness, harshness,… …
64barbarous — /ˈbabərəs/ (say bahbuhruhs) adjective 1. relating to or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilised, uncouth or cruel. 2. stylistically unacceptable. {Latin barbarus, from Greek barbaros foreign, non Greek} –barbarously, adverb –barbarousness, noun …
65barbarism — barbarism, barbarity Barbarism has the widest scope of reference, being applied to matters of taste as well as human behaviour, and it has a special meaning in relation to language (see barbarisms). Barbarity (and occasionally barbarousness,… …
66barbarity — barbarism, barbarity Barbarism has the widest scope of reference, being applied to matters of taste as well as human behaviour, and it has a special meaning in relation to language (see barbarisms). Barbarity (and occasionally barbarousness,… …
67atrocity — [n1] outrageous behavior atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, enormity, fiendishness, heinousness, horror, monstrousness, nefariousness, shockingness, villianousness, wickedness; concepts 411,657 Ant. good behavior, pleasantry atrocity [n2]… …
68kindness — [n1] compassion, generosity affection, altruism, amiability, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good intention, goodness, good will, grace …
69barbarous — [bär′bə rəs] adj. [L barbarus < Gr barbaros, foreign, strange, ignorant < IE echoic base * barbar , used for unintelligible speech of foreigners > Sans barbara , stammering, non Aryan] 1. Obs. foreign or alien; in the ancient world, non… …
70barbarous — adj. 1 uncivilized. 2 cruel. 3 coarse and unrefined. Derivatives: barbarously adv. barbarousness n. Etymology: orig. of any foreign language or people: f. L f. Gk barbaros foreign …
