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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: barbarique, from Latin, from Greek, from barbaros; BARBAROUS

barbaric

 adjective
     
bar‧bar‧ic
very cruel and violent [= barbarous]:
The way the whales are killed is nothing short of barbaric.
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