barbarous

  • (s) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
    • a barbarous crime
    • brutal beatings
    • cruel tortures
    • Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
    • a savage slap
    • vicious kicks
    brutal, cruel, fell, savage, vicious, roughshod,
  • (s) primitive in customs and culture

Synonyms

brutal cruel fell savage vicious roughshod

Words of close approximity

barbarously barbarousness