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Fearful vs Barbarous - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
  • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

    barbarous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) barbarouse

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not classical or pure.
  • uncivilized, uncultured
  • Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
  • 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)

    Derived terms

    * barbarously * barbarousness