'Violent' definitions:
Definition of 'violent'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike" [ant: nonviolent]
adjective
Effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death"
adjective
(of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts" [syn: violent, wild]
adjective
Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions" [syn: fierce, tearing, vehement, violent, trigger-happy]
adjective
Definition of 'Violent'
From: GCIDE
- Violent \Vi"o*lent\, n. An assailant. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Violent'
From: GCIDE
- Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Violent'
From: GCIDE
- Violent \Vi"o*lent\, v. i. To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Violent'
From: GCIDE
- Violent \Vi"o*lent\, a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. ? a muscle, strength.]
- 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. [1913 Webster]
- Float upon a wild and violent sea. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A violent cross wind from either coast. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. [1913 Webster]
- To bring forth more violent deeds. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. [1913 Webster]
- These violent delights have violent ends. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- No violent state can be perpetual. --T. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
- Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'violent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandoned,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- acute,
- amok,
- astringent,
- bacchic,
- barbarous,
- beast,
- beastly,
- beldam,
- bellowing,
- berserk,
- berserker,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bomber,
- brutal,
- brute,
- brutish,
- bulldozer,
- carried away,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- caustic,
- coercive,
- concentrated,
- corybantic,
- crazed,
- cruel,
- cutting,
- damaging,
- deleterious,
- delirious,
- demon,
- demoniac,
- desperate,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- devastating,
- devil,
- Dionysiac,
- distracted,
- double-edged,
- dragon,
- drastic,
- ecstatic,
- edged,
- energetic,
- enraptured,
- escharotic,
- excessive,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extravagant,
- extreme,
- feral,
- ferocious,
- fiend,
- fierce,
- fiery,
- fire-eater,
- firebrand,
- forceful,
- forcible,
- frantic,
- frenetic,
- frenzied,
- fulminating,
- furious,
- fury,
- goon,
- gorilla,
- great,
- gunsel,
- haggard,
- hardnose,
- harmful,
- harsh,
- hell-raiser,
- hellcat,
- hellhound,
- hellion,
- hog-wild,
- holy terror,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hothead,
- hotheaded,
- hotspur,
- howling,
- hysterical,
- immoderate,
- impetuous,
- in a transport,
- in hysterics,
- incendiary,
- incisive,
- inhuman,
- injurious,
- inordinate,
- insane,
- intemperate,
- intense,
- intoxicated,
- irrational,
- keen,
- killer,
- like one possessed,
- mad,
- mad dog,
- madcap,
- madding,
- maenadic,
- Mafioso,
- maniac,
- maniacal,
- mean,
- mighty,
- monster,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- mugger,
- nasty,
- orgasmic,
- orgiastic,
- outrageous,
- passionate,
- penetrating,
- physical,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- possessed,
- potent,
- powerful,
- rabid,
- raging,
- ramping,
- ranting,
- rapist,
- raving,
- raving mad,
- ravished,
- revolutionary,
- rigorous,
- roaring,
- rough,
- ruinous,
- running mad,
- running wild,
- savage,
- scathing,
- serious,
- severe,
- sharp,
- she-wolf,
- simmering,
- sledgehammer,
- spitfire,
- splitting,
- stabbing,
- stark-raving mad,
- steamroller,
- stinging,
- storming,
- stormy,
- strident,
- stringent,
- strong,
- strong-arm,
- tart,
- tempestuous,
- termagant,
- terrible,
- terror,
- terrorist,
- tiger,
- tigress,
- tornadic,
- tough,
- tough guy,
- transported,
- trenchant,
- ugly customer,
- unconscionable,
- uncontrollable,
- ungovernable,
- untamed,
- vehement,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virago,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- vixen,
- volcanic,
- wild,
- wild beast,
- wild-eyed,
- wild-looking,
- witch,
- wolf,
- Young Turk