barbarian

noun

the city was besieged by barbarians:

savage, brute, beast, wild man/woman, troglodyte;

ruffian, lout, thug, vandal, hoodlum, hooligan, rowdy;

boor, oaf, ignoramus, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo;

informal clod, clodhopper, roughneck;

British, informal yobbo, yob, lager lout, oik;

Australian, New Zealand, informal hoon.

adjective

the barbarian hordes:

savage, uncivilized, barbaric, barbarous, primitive, heathen, wild, brutish, Neanderthal;

thuggish, loutish, uncouth, coarse, rough, boorish, oafish, vulgar, gross, philistine, uneducated, uncultured, uncultivated, benighted, unsophisticated, unrefined, unpolished, ill-bred, ill-mannered;

informal yobbish;

archaic rude.

▷antonyms civilized.