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barbaric
adj. unrestrained and crudely rich; "barbaric use of color or ornament"
wild, savage, barbarian
adj. without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
Fuzzynyms (44)
tearing, fierce, ferocious, knock-down-and-drag-out, knock-down-drag-out
adj. marked by extreme violence: "a ferocious beating"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound: "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"; "in a tearing rage"
savage, fierce, feral, ferocious
adj. wild and menacing; "a ferocious dog"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
lowbrow, uncultivated
adj. characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes"
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
clownish, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish
adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
philistine, anti-intellectual
adj. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
fell, savage, vicious, barbarous, roughshod, brutal, cruel
adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"
brute, beastly, bestial, brutish, cannibalic
adj. resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
animalistic
adj. of or pertaining to animalism
cutthroat, fierce, bowelless
adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"
Synonyms (25)
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
camp, campy
adj. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
indelicate
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
kitsch, ostentatious, pretentious
adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
primitive, crude, barbarous, gothic
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
preliterate, nonliterate
adj. used of a society that has not developed writing
Antonyms (1)
civilized
adj. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
barbaric
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