barbarouse

Adjective

barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)

1. Not classical or pure.
   • He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, pages 77-78; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969
2. Uncivilized, uncultured.
   • [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called in Latin Irio”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 23, recto

   Synonyms:

   barbaric, savage, animalistic, barbarian, barbarious, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim

3. Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage.
   • Direct my weapon to his barbarous heart, / That thus oppoſeth him againſt the Gods, / And ſcornes the Powers that gouerne Perſea.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   ruthless, savage, truculent, bowelless, brutal, compassionless, cruel, flagitious, demonic, despiteful

4. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
   • I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs / By the known rules of antient libertie, / When strait a barbarous noise environs me / Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs1673, John Milton, I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs