Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barbarously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English

Syllables: bar-barous-ly
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a barbarous manner.

Example Sentences

"However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape."
"I was reminded of this by an entry in the Westleton Churchwarden's Account for 1731-2 which records the sum of one shilling and sixpence having been given to 'fifteen seamen in company, which had been taken by ye pyrates and very barbarously used'."

Etymology

Etymology tree English barbarous Middle English -ly English -ly English barbarously From barbarous + -ly.

Inflected Forms

more barbarously (comparative) most barbarously (superlative)

Questions

What does barbarously mean?: In a barbarous manner.
Where does barbarously come from?: Etymology tree English barbarous Middle English -ly English -ly English barbarously From barbarous + -ly.

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