Word Meanings - BARBARISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.

Additional info about word: BARBARISM

1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton. 3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BARBARISM)

• Inconcinnity
• Inelegance
• stiffness
• barbarism
• slang
• euphuism
• cacophony

Related words: (words related to BARBARISM)

• SLANGINESS
  Quality of being slangy.
• INCONCINNITY
  Want of concinnity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.
• STIFFNESS
  The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.
• SLANGOUS
  Slangy. John Bee.
• SLANG
  imp. of Sling. Slung.
• SLANGY
  Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang.
• CACOPHONY
  An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds." Pope.
• BARBARISM
  1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. 2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton.
• INELEGANCE; INELEGANCY
  Etym: 1. The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners. The notorious inelegance of her figure. T. Hook. 2. Anything inelegant; as, inelegance of
• EUPHUISM
  An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
• RESTIFFNESS
  Restiveness.
• SEMIBARBARISM
  The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized.
• BOOMSLANGE
  A large South African tree snake . Although considered venomous by natives, it has no poison fangs.