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adj. primitive in customs and culture

barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious

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"

crude, rude

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"

ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettered

adj. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"

ignorant, illiterate

adj. uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"

harsh, rigorous, brutal, cruel, unkind

adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"

barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

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"

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

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"

boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish

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

adj. of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying

adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty"

sadistic

adj. deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from inflicting pain on another

homicidal, murderous

adj. characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs"

poisonous, venomous, vicious

adj. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

cutthroat, fierce, bowelless

adj. ruthless in competition; "cutthroat competition"; "bowelless readiness to take advantage"

noxious

adj. injurious to physical or mental health; "noxious chemical wastes"; "noxious ideas"

violent

adj. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death"

crimson, red, violent

adj. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode

barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilized, uncivilised, wild

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"

preliterate, nonliterate

adj. used of a society that has not developed writing

cannibalic

adj. marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage

brutal

adj. disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"

inhuman

adj. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"

pitiless, unkind

adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings

civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

humane

adj. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering

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