| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, wolfish |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
Antonyms: |
civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | brutal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, rough |
Synonyms: |
animal, bearish, beastly, bestial, brute, brutish, carnal, coarse, feral, ferine, inhuman, inhumane, rude, savage, swinish, unfeeling |
Antonyms: |
gentle, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, demoniac, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, rancorous, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked |
Antonyms: |
charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | ferocious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, barbaric |
Synonyms: |
barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, fell, feral, fierce, frightful, grim, implacable, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, merciless, murderous, pitiless, predatory, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, relentless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, tigerish, truculent, unmerciful, unrestrained, untamed, vehement, vicious, voracious, wild, wolfish |
Antonyms: |
gentle, innocent, kind, mild, nonviolent, tame, tender |
| Main Entry: | inhuman/inhumane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | animal, savage |
Synonyms: |
barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious |
Antonyms: |
animate, human/humane, sensate |
| Main Entry: | merciless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, heartless |
Synonyms: |
barbarous, callous, compassionless, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, fierce, gratuitous, grim, hard, hardhearted, harsh, hatchet job, having a killer instinct, implacable, inexorable, inhumane, iron-fisted, mean machine, mortal, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, severe, unappeasable, uncalled-for, unfeeling, unflinching, unforgiving, unmerciful, unpitying, unrelenting, unsparing, unsympathetic, unyielding, wanton |
Antonyms: |
giving, kind, merciful, nice, sparing, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | misanthropic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable, cynical |
Synonyms: |
antisocial, egoistic, egotistical, eremitic, hating, inhumane, malevolent, misanthropical, reclusive, reserved, sarcastic, selfish, solitary, standoffish, unfriendly |
Antonyms: |
humanitarian, philanthropic, sociable |
| Main Entry: | pitiless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without mercy or care |
Synonyms: |
austere, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold*, coldblooded, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, frigid, hardhearted, harsh, hatchetjob, heartless, implacable, indifferent, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensible, killer instinct, mean, merciless, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, satanic, savage, soulless, stony |
Antonyms: |
charitable, kind, merciful, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | remorseless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without guilt in spite of wrongdoing |
Synonyms: |
avaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hard-bitten, hard-hearted, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, rigorous, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, shameless, sour, tough, tyrannical, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unforgiving, unmerciful, unregenerate, unrelenting, unremitting, unrepenting, unyielding, vindictive |
Antonyms: |
ashamed, guilty, remorseful, sad, sorry |
| Main Entry: | savage |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cruel, vicious |
Synonyms: |
atrocious, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodthirsty, bloody, brutal, brutish, cold-blooded, crazed, demoniac, destructive, devilish, diabolical, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frantic, furious, grim, harsh, heartless, hellish, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, malicious, merciless, murderous, pitiless, rabid, raging, rapacious, ravening, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, unrelenting, violent, wolfish |
Antonyms: |
benign, kind, nice |