Get Free Checker
[ UK /vˈa‍ɪ‍ələnt/ ]
[ US /ˈvaɪəɫənt, ˈvaɪɫənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
    a violent clash of colors
    her dress was a violent red
    wild colors
    wild shouts
    a violent noise
  2. effected by force or injury rather than natural causes
    a violent death
  3. acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
    a violent rage
    violent feelings
    a violent person
    a violent attack
    felt a violent dislike
  4. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
    vehement dislike
    violent passions
    in a tearing rage
    fierce loyalty
  5. characterized by violence or bloodshed
    writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days
    convulsed with red rage
    fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing

How To Use violent In A Sentence

  • Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
  • Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.
  • She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
  • Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
  • My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
  • For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
  • And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spulzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye? The Waverley
  • Thelma has several drug-related convictions and is awaiting trial on a charge of violent disorder.
  • I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. John Lennon 
  • Early screenings suggested as much, or suggested trouble at least, as preview audiences found the film too dark and violent, all in all too un-Leo.
View all