Violent

Adjective

 * 1) Involving extreme force or motion.
 * A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
 * 1) Involving physical conflict.
 * We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if needed.
 * 1) Likely to use physical force.
 * The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
 * 1) Intensely vivid.
 * The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.

Antonyms

 * peaceful

Related terms

 * violence

Thesaurus
Dionysiac, Mafioso, Young Turk, 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, 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, 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

Etymology
From violent:, from  violentus:, from vis:.

Translations

 * Arabic: عنيف
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 強烈,  强烈
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: voldsom
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: heftig, gewaltig, brutal, gewalttätig
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: foréigneach
 * Japanese: 激しい
 * Old English: stræc,
 * Polish: gwałtowny
 * Russian: неистовый
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: عنيف
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: voldelig
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Irish: foréigneach
 * Japanese: 暴力的な
 * Old English: grimlic,, swiþlic
 * Polish: brutalny
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: عنيف
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: voldelig
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: gewaltbereit
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: foréigneach
 * Japanese: 暴力的な
 * Polish: agresywny
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: kraftig, heftig
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: vif


 * German: grell
 * Hungarian: rikító
 * Japanese: 激しい
 * Polish: jaskrawy


 * : dshunshëm
 * : güclü
 * : žestok
 * : бурен (buren)
 * : hevig
 * : perforta
 * : vägivaldne
 * : violent
 * : אַלִּים
 * : keras
 * : violento
 * : 강력한 (gangryŏghan)
 * : spēcīgs
 * : voldelig


 * : ﺩﻨﺘ
 * : violento
 * : violent, puternic
 * : жесток (žestok)
 * : divoký
 * : nasilen, nasilna , nasilno
 * : dhalimu
 * : รุนแรง
 * : sert
 * : сильний (síľnij)
 * : mạnh mẽ
 * : chwyrn
 * : hizik

Adjective

 * 1) violent

Etymology 1
Borrowed from violentus:.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Anagrams

 * ventilo
 * voilent