violent

1. 1

   Involving extreme force or motion.

   • A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
2. 2

   Involving physical conflict.

   • We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
3. 3

   Likely to use physical force.

   • The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
4. 4

   Intensely vivid.

   • The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
   • his violent objections to the plan
5. 5

   Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
6. 6

   Acute, extreme, sharp.

   • a violent headache

ant. peaceful

1. 1

   To urge with violence.archaictransitive

   • a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial

1. 1

   An assailant.obsolete

   • Did the Covetous extortioner observe that he is involv'd in the same sentence, [and] remember that such Violents shall take not heaven, but hell, by force.