English-Thai Dictionary

barbarity

N อนารยธรรม  ความป่าเถื่อน  ความโหดเหี้ยม  ความ ไม่ มีวัฒนธรรม  atrocity ar-na-ra-ya-tam

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BARBARITY

n.[See Barbarian. ] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. 2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BARBARITY

Bar *bar "i *ty, n.; pl. Barbarities. Etym: [From Barbarous. ]

 

Defn: The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

 

2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

 

3. A barbarous or cruel act.

 

4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [Obs. ] Swift.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

barbarity

bar bar i ty |bärˈbaritē bɑrˈbɑrədi | ▶noun ( pl. barbarities ) 1 extreme cruelty or brutality: the barbarity of the slave trade | the barbarities of the last war. 2 absence of culture and civilization: beyond the Empire lay barbarity.

 

Oxford Dictionary

barbarity

bar |bar ¦ity |bɑːˈbarɪti | ▶noun ( pl. barbarities ) [ mass noun ] 1 extreme cruelty or brutality: the barbarity displayed by the terrorists | [ count noun ] : the barbarities of war. 2 absence of culture and civilization: beyond the Empire lay barbarity.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

barbarity

barbarity noun the barbarity of slavery: brutality, brutalism, cruelty, bestiality, barbarism, barbarousness, savagery, viciousness, wickedness, villainy, baseness, inhumanity; atrocity. ANTONYMS benevolence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

barbarity

barbarity noun 1 the barbarity of slavery: brutality, brutalism, cruelty, bestiality, barbarism, barbarousness, savagery, viciousness, fierceness, ferocity, wickedness, nastiness, ruthlessness, remorselessness, mercilessness, villainy, murderousness, heinousness, nefariousness, monstrousness, baseness, vileness, inhumanity, blackness, fiendishness, black-heartedness, hellishness, ghastliness, horror. ANTONYMS benevolence. 2 the barbarities of the last war: atrocity, act of brutality, act of savagery, evil, crime, outrage, offence, abomination, obscenity, enormity, wrong. 3 beyond the empire lay barbarity: heathendom, barbarianism, barbarism, barbarousness, primitiveness, wildness; philistinism, benightedness, unsophisticatedness, lack of civilization; archaic rudeness. ANTONYMS civilization.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

barbarity

bar bar i ty /bɑː r bǽrəti /名詞 複 -ties U C 1 野蛮, 残酷, 残虐 (行為 )(atrocity ).2 (文体などの )荒々しさ .