Fearful vs Barbarous - What's the difference?
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Frightening.
Frightened, filled with terror.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
Terrible.
Tending to fear.
Not classical or pure.
uncivilized, uncultured
Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
Fearful is a related term of barbarous.
As adjectives the difference between fearful and barbarous
is that fearful is frightening while barbarous is not classical or pure.fearful
English
Alternative forms
* fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)Adjective
(fearfuller)- Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
- fearful boy
Synonyms
* (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See alsoExternal links
* *barbarous
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) barbarouseAdjective
(en adjective)- I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
- By the known rules of antient libertie,
- When strait a barbarous noise environs me
- Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - (1673)
