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Antonyms for barbarically


Grammar : Adv
Spell : bahr-bar-ik
Phonetic Transcription : bɑrˈbær ɪk



Definition of barbarically

Origin :
  • late 15c., "uncultured, uncivilized, unpolished," from French barbarique (15c.), from Latin barbaricus "foreign, strange, outlandish," from Greek barbarikos "like a foreigner," from barbaros "foreign, rude" (see barbarian). Meaning "pertaining to barbarians" is from 1660s.
  • As in brutally : adv cruelly, without remorse
Example sentences :
  • It was barbarically hung with banners, but it was not exactly a cheery place.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates of Ersatz » by Murray Leinster
  • The outer walls are barbarically huge and heavy, and superb in color.
  • Extract from : « The Near East » by Robert Hichens
  • It was only Carlotta on her barbarically betrapped and besaddled mule.
  • Extract from : « The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne » by William J. Locke
  • She was dreaming that Anna Zanidov stood before her in the barbarically painted evening gown.
  • Extract from : « Sacrifice » by Stephen French Whitman
  • For the nomad of the fire-wheel was a girl, tall and slender, barbarically arrayed in the holiday garb of a Seminole chief.
  • Extract from : « Diane of the Green Van » by Leona Dalrymple
  • With cool assurance he made his offer to the stately plumed, suspicious grandees of the barbarically magnificent court.
  • Extract from : « Jewels of Gwahlur » by Robert E. Howard
  • The Sikhs who succeeded the Afghans were not so barbarically cruel, but they were hard and rough masters.
  • Extract from : « Kashmir » by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband
  • These should be barbarically glowing, since it is partly in their wild flare of color that the beauty of the Blanket Dance lies.
  • Extract from : « Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People » by Constance D'Arcy Mackay
  • The rhythms are joyously, barbarically, at times almost frenetically, free.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld

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