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Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
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- Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress:
- Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering; enjoying others' suffering; without mercy or pity
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
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- Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
- Not having the qualities considered normal to or for human beings; unfeeling, heartless, cruel, barbarous, etc.
- Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
Plain and direct, although distressing in effect
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- Plain and direct, although distressing in effect
- Extremely ruthless or cruel.
- Disagreeably precise or penetrating:
Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
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- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
Marked by crudeness or lack of sophistication:
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- Marked by crudeness or lack of sophistication:
- Of, like, or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilized; primitive
- Brutal or cruel:
Rough, violent, or harsh
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- Rough, violent, or harsh
- Ill-mannered, discourteous, or insulting:
- Barbarous or ignorant
Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.
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- Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.
- Not complex, refined, developed, etc.
- Artless, simple, ingenuous, etc.
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Uncivilized; crude
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- Uncivilized; crude
- Of or like a barbarian
- Cruel; barbarous
Of, like, or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilized; primitive
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- Of, like, or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilized; primitive
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of barbarians.
- Wild, crude, and unrestrained
Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
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- Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
- Not resulting from conscious thought or deliberation; unconscious or instinctual:
- Being a protolanguage:
Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
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- Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
- Barbarous or ignorant
- Undeveloped or uncivilized; primitive:
Vicious or merciless; brutal:
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- Vicious or merciless; brutal:
- Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
- Wild, uncultivated, rugged, etc.
Not civilized; barbarous; unenlightened
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- Not civilized; barbarous; unenlightened
- Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
- Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
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- Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
- Not cultivated by standard agricultural methods:
- Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
Not cultured or cultivated:
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- Not cultured or cultivated:
- Not cultured or civilized; lacking in delicacy or refinement.
Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded:
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- Based on little or no evidence or probability; unfounded:
- Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
- Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious:
(Archaic) Uncivilized.
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- (Archaic) Uncivilized.
- Discourteous; rude:
- Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
Like a beast in qualities or behavior; brutish or savage; brutal, coarse, vile, etc.
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- Like a beast in qualities or behavior; brutish or savage; brutal, coarse, vile, etc.
- Of beasts or lower animals
- Marked by brutality or depravity; brutal or depraved:
Causing, or of a kind to cause, pain, distress, etc.
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- Causing, or of a kind to cause, pain, distress, etc.
- Deliberately seeking to inflict pain and suffering; enjoying others' suffering; without mercy or pity
- Disposed to inflict pain or suffering:
Fierce; terrible; cruel
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- Fierce; terrible; cruel
- Dire; sinister:
- Capable of destroying; lethal:
Having returned to a wild condition
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- Having returned to a wild condition
- Having returned to an untamed state from domestication:
- Savage; fierce
Extremely powerful or destructive:
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- Extremely powerful or destructive:
- Extremely aggressive or violent:
- Fierce; savage; violently cruel
Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
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- Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
- Intense in activity or feeling; vigorous or ardent:
- Extremely powerful or destructive:
Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
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- Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel or indifferent:
- Not of ordinary human nature, form, or character:
- Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
Fierce; ferocious; untamed
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- Fierce; ferocious; untamed
- Without civilization; primitive; barbarous
- Cruel; pitiless
Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
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- Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
- Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
- Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
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- Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
- Severe, powerful, or intense; fierce:
- Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
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