Barbarism Synonyms and Antonyms

bärbə-rĭzəm
A term that offends against established usage standards
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. brutality
  2. solecism
  3. cruelty
  4. corruption
  5. barbarity
  6. savagery
  7. inhumanity
  8. vulgarism
  9. atrocity
  10. cant
  11. catachresis
  12. impropriety (of speech)
  13. misuse
  14. outrage
  15. savageness
  16. benightment
  17. savagism
  18. malaprop
  19. vernacularism
Antonyms:
  1. kindness
  2. praise

Words Related to Barbarism

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Barbarism Sentence Examples

  • As a matter of fact, barbarism did break out after the flower had fallen from Neoplatonism.

  • War is the ultimate barbarism, the primitive belief that fighting determines who is right—but of course it doesn't.

  • He spoke, indeed, bitterly of " the state of barbarism in which the country had been left by the traffic in men."

  • Passing from the lower savage myths, of which space does not permit us to offer a larger selection, we turn to races in the upper strata of barbarism.

  • Who intends to act against this growing barbarism which appears ready to sweep all before it in our country?

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