barbarian

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, Sl. rube, Sl. hick, Disparaging. bogtrotter, hobnail, Inf. hayseed, kern, yahoo, Sl. lug.
5. foreigner, alien, outsider; stranger, tramontane, outlander; immigrant, emigrant, newcomer; heathen, pagan, gentile.

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