noun🔗ShareA barbaric act."These barbarisms can not be allowed to continue; they must be crushed or civilization will collapse."actionmoralinhumanChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe condition of existing barbarically."The school's lack of discipline demonstrated a worrying level of barbarism in student behavior. "culturesocietyhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA word hybridizing Ancient Greek and Latin or other heterogeneous roots."The teacher marked down my essay because it contained "television," a clear example of barbarism mixing the Greek "tele" with the Latin "vision." "grammarlinguisticswordlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn error in language use within a single word, such as a mispronunciation."My friend's barbarism in pronouncing "psychology" made us all chuckle. "languagegrammarlinguisticswordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading