Synonyms and Antonyms of barbaric
- a barbaric dictator who tortured his own people with no qualms
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
- the barbaric forebears of modern mankind
barbarian, barbarous, heathen, heathenish, natural, Neanderthal (or Neandertal), rude, savage, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultivated, wild