| Main Entry: | barbarism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crudity, savagery, especially in speech |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, catachresis, coarseness, corruption, cruelty, impropriety, inhumanity, localism, malapropism, misusage, misuse, primitive culture, provincialism, solecism, uncivilizedness, vernacularism, vernacularity, vulgarism |
Antonyms: |
kindness, praise |
| Main Entry: | bad form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad style |
Synonyms: |
barbarism, impropriety, indecorum, inelegance, infelicity, solecism |
| Main Entry: | brutality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruel treatment |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, choke hold, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, grossness, inhumanity, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, third degree, unfeelingness, viciousness |
Antonyms: |
gentleness, humaneness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
Synonyms: |
animality, barbarism, barbarity, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coarseness, coldness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, insensibility, insensitiveness, malice, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, persecution, rancor, ruthlessness, sadism, savageness, savagery, severity, spite, spitefulness, torture, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, venom, viciousness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | impropriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad taste, mistake |
Synonyms: |
barbarism, blunder, faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, immodesty, impudence, incongruity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorum, inelegance, rudeness, slip*, solecism, unseemliness, unsuitability, vulgarism, vulgarity |
Antonyms: |
correctness, propriety, suitability, tastefulness |
| Main Entry: | inhumanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of compassion |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, barbarism, bloodthirstiness, brutality, brutishness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, ferocity, heartlessness, maliciousness, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, violence |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
Synonyms: |
abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | solecism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misuse |
Synonyms: |
abuse, barbarism, blunder, cacology, error, impropriety, mistake, misusage |
| Main Entry: | solecism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
Synonyms: |
barbarism, blooper, error, impropriety, incongruity, mistake, slip |