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primitive, crude, 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"
fell, savage, vicious, 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"
Fuzzynyms (61)
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, unenlightened, 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"
illiterate, ignorant
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"
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
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"
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"
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
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
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
cutthroat, sanguinary, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, homicidal, murderous
adj. marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed; "bloody-minded tyrants"; "bloodthirsty yells"; "went after the collaborators with a sanguinary fury that drenched the land with blood"-G.W.Johnson
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"
harmful, 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"
gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, violent, butcherly
adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war"
Synonyms (20)
wild, savage, barbarian, barbaric
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
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"
brutal, cruel
adj. (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain; "brutal instruments of torture"; "cruel weapons of war"
cold, insensate, cold-blooded, inhuman
adj. without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
unfeeling, unkind, pitiless
adj. deficient in humane and kindly feelings
Antonyms (7)
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
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
barbarous
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