Vehement
['viːɪm(ə)nt]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by great force or energy; 'vehement deluges of rain'; 'vehement clapping'; 'a vehement defense' .
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Definition
(a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
(a.) Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.
Editor: Sweeney
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Impetuous, violent, furious, rampant, passionate, high, hot, high-wrought.[2]. Ardent, zealous, eager, keen, earnest, fervid, enthusiastic, sanguine.[3]. Strong, forcible, powerful, vigorous, very great.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Violent, impetuous, ardent, burning, fervent, raging, furious, passionate,fervid, urgent, forcible, eager
ANT:Mild, feeble, inanimate, subdued, controlled, unimpassioned, passionless, cold,stoical, gentle, weak, mitigated
Editor: Thea
Definition
adj. passionate: furious: very eager or urgent.—ns. Vē′hemence Vē′hemency the quality of being vehement: violence: great ardour or fervour.—adv. Vē′hemently.
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Examples
- She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering, after her many and vehement declarations of independence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Of all wells, from one fathom to six or seven, the water flew out at the top with a vehement motion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He grew vehement --was again refused, and became noisy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Shaw took as vehement a dislike as it was possible for one of her gentle nature to do, against Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The objective man, at the same time, may find even in the vehement pages of Nietzsche warnings and criticisms which the friends of democracy should not disrega rd. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I would not be too vehement,' said Agnes, gently, 'or propose too much. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He wound up this vehement declaration by looking round upon us with a most agreeable smile and suddenly thundering, Ha, ha, ha! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The German learned did not display the same vehement hatred of the new learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When money is to be paid and received, there is always some vehement jawing and gesticulating about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I'LL circumstance you and control you too,' retorted the person of the house, speaking with vehement sharpness, 'if you talk in that way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His mother parted her lips to begin some other vehement truth, but on looking at him she saw that in his face which led her to leave the words unsaid. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Fanny, quite punishing her own forehead with the vehement dabs she now began to give it, fitfully went on. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He held in his hand a mass of his compound of sulphur and gum, upon which he was expatiating in his usual vehement manner, the company exhibiting the indifference to which he was accustomed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Another cheer, far more vehement. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Andy looked up innocently at Sam, surprised at hearing this new geographical fact, but instantly confirmed what he said, by a vehement reiteration. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A sensitive, vehement, passionate nature--a woman of ten thousand in these trivial, superficial times. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was too vehement to notice her mother's condition--she was on her feet again, and back with Mr. Godfrey, in an instant. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Emanuel entered with his vehement burst of latch and panel, and his deep, redundant bowprophetic of choler. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A little too vehement--like a bull who has made up his mind to consider every colour scarlet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If her husband had been vehement against Fred, she would have been urged into defence of her darling. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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