Is it insult if you call someone barbarian?
Not to me. Why do you want to call them names?
I personally do not know anyone who would be offended by it. Also depends on how you say it.
Answer:
'Barbarian' is a pejorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the society of the speaker. While the latter sense is always pejorative, the former one has not invariably been so, as described below.
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Were you feeling kinda primal when you said it to them? Cover you insensitivity with the sources below...
Depends. I would consider it a compliment, but then I read a book called 'the Barbarian Way' see the link below.
Uh, yeah. Of course it is! Thats like asking if its mean to call someone a moron.
