Ancient and Barbaric

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Ancient

Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.
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Barbaric and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Barbaric" instead an adjective "Ancient".
Nearby Word: anciently

Barbaric

Barbaric adjective - Having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others.
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Ancient and barbaric are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Barbaric".
Nearby Words: barbarous, barbarian, barbarity, barbarism, barbarously

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  • In the Clark Ashton Smith short story of the same name, an archaeologist in the distant future lectures his audience on the religious fanaticism and mass human sacrifices of the ancient and barbaric cult of "The Great God Awto".
    Source: All Hail the Great God Mickey!
  • Although amusingly enough, the so-called Gothic architecture developed during the Middle Ages was technologically more advanced than anything done in the ancient Rome, but the Renaissance people thought it was crude and barbaric because it diverted from the Roman aesthetics.
    Source: Modern Stasis
  • Literature / Kull Recursive Precursors: Atlantis, Kull's homeland, is a young and barbaric island nation while Valusia and its culture is considered ancient beyond reckoning, extending back to the very dawn of Man as a free, non-enslaved species.
    Source: Literature / Kull
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