- 1cruel and violent, and not as expected from people who are educated and respect each other a barbaric act/custom/ritual The way these animals are killed is barbaric.
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- 2connected with barbarians
NAmE//bɑrˈbærɪkli//, NAmE//bɑrˈbɛrɪkli//
adverb These prisoners have been treated barbarically.See barbaric in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: barbaric