barbarise

Questions about barbarise

What does barbarise mean?

barbarise means "become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barbarise?

barbarise has 3 syllables: bar-ba-rise. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for barbarise?

Close synonyms include barbarize, barbarize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbarise a common word?

barbarise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.