barbarity

Oxford American Dictionary
barbarity
- IPA[bärˈberədē]
美式
- n.
  
  extreme cruelty or brutality；absence of culture and civilization
- noun: barbarity, plural noun: barbarities
- 釋義
n.
名詞
1. extreme cruelty or brutality the barbarity of the act outraged millions the barbarities of the last war 同義詞 brutality, brutalism, cruelty, bestiality, barbarism, ... 更多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, atrocity, act of brutality, act of savagery, evil, crime, outrage, offense, abomination, obscenity, enormity, wrong反義詞 benevolence
2. absence of culture and civilization wildernesses were seen as places of great beauty rather than as places of barbarity 同義詞 heathendom, barbarianism, barbarism, barbarousness, primitiveness, ... 更多wildness, philistinism, benightedness, unsophisticatedness, lack of civilization, archaicrudeness反義詞 civilization
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barbarity
IPA[bɑːˈbarɪti]
英式
n.
extreme cruelty or brutality: the barbarity of the act outraged millions the barbarities of war
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