violent

Meanings

Adjective

• Involving extreme force or motion.
• Involving physical conflict.
• Likely to use physical force.
• Intensely vivid.
• Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.

Verb

• To urge with violence.

Noun

• An assailant.

Related

Opposite words

• peaceful

Origin

• From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs. For the verb, compare French violenter.