Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 9 letters

barbarous

Limited data

No curated clues yet.

Use pattern search to check whether the word fits.

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabborrsuStarts with BEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
1B2A3R4B5A6R7O8U9S

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

B________

Definitions

  1. primitive in customs and culture

Word origin

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek βάρβαρος (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • The original Turkish tongue was somewhat barbarous, but extremely forcible and concise when spoken.
  • [T]he poticaries and barbarus wryters call it [the iris] Irios in the genetiue caſe.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer0 curated clues

No curated clues for barbarous yet.

Related words