Violent
['vaɪəl(ə)nt] or ['vaɪələnt]
Definition
(adj.) (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' .
(adj.) effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; 'a violent death' .
(adj.) 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' .
Inputed by Armand--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
(a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
(n.) An assailant.
(v. t.) To urge with violence.
(v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Boisterous, furious, impetuous, vehement.[2]. Fierce, fiery, fuming, raging, ungovernable, infuriate, passionate, high, hot.[3]. Unnatural, effected by force, unlawful.[4]. Unjust, outrageous.[5]. Sharp, severe, acute, poignant, intense, exquisite, pungent.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vehement, raving, furious, forcible, outrageous, raging, passionate,{[See_Vm:]?}
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Definition
adj. acting with physical force or strength: moved by strong feeling: passionate: vehement: outrageous: produced by force: intense: compulsory: unnatural.—v.i. (Shak.) to be violent.—n. Vī′olence the state or quality of being violent: force physical or moral: unjust force: outrage: profanation: injury: rape.—adv. Vī′olently.—Do violence on (Shak.) to attack murder; Do violence to to outrage injure.
Checker: Millicent
Examples
- To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He brought out his sentences in short violent jerks, as though they were forced up from a deep inner crater of indignation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It floated up and produced a violent effect on the mucous membrane. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I am violent, I know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The man mastered himself with a violent effort, and his grim mouth loosened into a false laugh, which was more menacing than his frown. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Yet she must continue in this state of violent active superconsciousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Pray, how _violent was_ Mr. Bingley's love? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He had positive bodily pain,--a violent headache, and a throbbing intermittent pulse. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Nor should our citizens be given to excess of laughter--'Such violent delights' are followed by a violent re-action. Plato. The Republic.
- I mean,' said Fagin, showing that he felt all disguise was now useless, 'not too violent for safety. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort--they are reliefs of pain. Plato. The Republic.
- After the latter the animal was ready to burst, and made so violent a discharge as was very offensive to me and my companion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Come the roll of wheels and a violent ringing at the bell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Marie rose and threw herself out of the apartment into her own, when she fell into violent hysterics. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- These violent awakenings must have been annoying to Oliver, but he never complained. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A violent cough in another gives us uneasiness; though in itself it does not in the least affect us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And still, in his consciousness, he was sorry for her, her nature was so violent and so impatient. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But when I begin to examine the pictures one by one the life goes out of them, or else is something violent and strange to me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And with a violent effort he tore himself away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was becoming less persuasive and more violent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But from the introduction of the third Home Rule Bill onward the opposition to it had assumed a violent and extravagant form. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Marianne gave a violent start, fixed her eyes upon Elinor, saw her turning pale, and fell back in her chair in hysterics. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my companion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This Meyler was the young, rich, Hampshire gentleman who, Worcester assured me, had professed to entertain such a violent dislike towards me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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