Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbarize

/ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bar-barize
IPA: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cause to become savage or uncultured.

Transitive verb

verb

To become savage or uncultured.

Intransitive verb

verb

To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan."
"The ill habit […] of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms."

Usage

Inflected Forms

barbarizes (present, singular) barbarizing (participle, present) barbarized (participle, past) barbarized (past)

Derived Forms

barbarization debarbarize rebarbarize unbarbarize

Synonyms

barbarise

Questions

How do you pronounce barbarize?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹaɪz/.
What does barbarize mean?: To cause to become savage or uncultured.

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