VIOLENT meaning: Causing harm through physical force

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word violent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

violent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
violent: Merriam-Webster
violent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
violent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
violent: Collins English Dictionary
violent: Vocabulary.com
Violent, violent: Wordnik
violent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
violent: Wiktionary
violent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
violent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
violent: Infoplease Dictionary
violent: Dictionary.com
violent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Violent (film), Violent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Violent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
violent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
violent: Rhymezone
Violent, violent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
violent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
violent: FreeDictionary.org
violent: Mnemonic Dictionary
violent: TheFreeDictionary.com
violent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

violent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

violent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
violent: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

violent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Involving extreme force or motion.
▸ adjective:  Involving physical conflict.
▸ adjective:  Likely to use physical force.
▸ adjective:  Intensely vivid.
▸ adjective:  Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) An assailant.

Similar:

ferocious, vehement, fierce, furious, intense, tough, lurid, terrorist, raging, wild, more...

Opposite:

peaceful, gentle, calm, serene, placid

Types:

physical, verbal, emotional, sexual, psychological, economic, political, social, more...

Phrases:

Violent crime, violent behavior, violent death, violent storm, violent storms, more...

Adjectives:

non, more, naughty, fairy, deformed, very, external, how

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, blood red, burgundy, maroon, more...