meaning of violent
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.
2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
4. An assailant.
5. To urge with violence.
6. To be violent; to act violently.
7. characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fannd by Conquests crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode
Related Words
violent | violent death | violent disorder | violent storm | violent stream | violently |
