Synonyms of the word violent


VIOLENTBLOODY - CONVULSIVE - CRIMSON - FEROCIOUS - FIERCE - FURIOUS - HOSTILE - HOT - INTENSE - KNOCKDOWN-DRAGOUT - LASHING - LURID - RAGING - RAMPAGEOUS - RED - RUFFIANLY - SAVAGE - SLAM-BANG - TEARING - TERRORIST - TOUGH - TRIGGER-HAPPY - UNNATURAL - UNPEACEFUL - VEHEMENT - WILD

violent

  • adj. Involving extreme force or motion.
  • adj. Involving physical conflict.
  • adj. Likely to use physical force.
  • adj. Intensely vivid.
  • adj. (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
  • n. (obsolete) An assailant.

bloody

  • adj. Covered in blood.
  • adj. Characterised by bloodshed.
  • adj. (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used as an intensifier.
  • adj. (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
  • adv. (rare in US, Canada, common in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Used to intensify what follows…
  • v. To draw blood from one's opponent in a fight.
  • v. To demonstrably harm the cause of an opponent.
  • n. (casual) bloody mary.

convulsive

  • adj. Marked by or having the nature of convulsions.
  • adj. Having or producing convulsions.

crimson

  • n. A deep, slightly bluish red.
  • adj. Having a deep red colour.
  • adj. Having loose morals.
  • v. to blush.
  • v. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

ferocious

  • adj. Marked by extreme and violent energy.
  • adj. Extreme or intense.

fierce

  • adj. Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious or savage.
  • adj. Resolute or strenuously active.
  • adj. Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
  • adj. (slang, Ireland, rural) Excellent, very good.
  • adj. (slang, US) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
  • adv. (slang, Ireland, rural) Extremely; very.

furious

  • adj. Transported with anger or passion; raging; violent.
  • adj. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.

hostile

  • adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence,…
  • adj. Aggressive, antagonistic.
  • adj. Of a hostile takeover.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

hot

  • adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
  • adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
  • adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
  • adj. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
  • adj. Feverish.
  • adj. (of food) Spicy.
  • adj. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
  • adj. Stolen.
  • adj. (incomparable) Electrically charged.
  • adj. (informal) Radioactive.
  • adj. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
  • adj. (slang) Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
  • adj. (slang) Sexually aroused; horny.
  • adj. Popular; in demand.
  • adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
  • adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
  • adj. Fresh; just released.
  • adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
  • adj. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something.
  • v. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
  • v. (with up) To become lively or exciting.

intense

  • adj. Strained; tightly drawn.
  • adj. Strict, very close or earnest.
  • adj. Extreme in degree; excessive.
  • adj. Extreme in size or strength.
  • adj. Stressful and tiring.
  • adj. Very severe.

knockdown-dragout

  • adj. (of a fight or battle) Markedly violent.

lashing

  • n. Something used to tie something or lash it to something.
  • n. (in the form "lashings of"): plenty of.
  • n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.
  • v. present participle of lash.
  • v. (Ireland, slang) Raining heavily.

lurid

  • adj. Shocking, horrifying.
  • adj. Melodramatic.
  • adj. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
  • adj. Being of a light yellow hue.
  • adj. (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
  • adj. (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

raging

  • v. present participle of rage.
  • adj. Volatile, very active or unpredictable.
  • adj. (of a person) In a state of rage; in a state of extreme, often uncontrollable, anger.
  • n. A display of rage.

rampageous

  • adj. Violent and boisterous; unruly.

red

  • adj. Having red as its color.
  • adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
  • adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”).
  • adj. (often capitalized) Left-wing, especially socialist or communist.
  • adj. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the political party represented by the color red, especially…
  • adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
  • adj. (US, modern) Of, pertaining to, or run by (a member of) the political party represented by the color red,…
  • adj. (Britain) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  • adj. (politics) Related to the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  • adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum…
  • adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible…
  • n. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik,…
  • n. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  • n. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
  • n. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
  • n. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  • n. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal).
  • n. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade.
  • n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  • n. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
  • v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede.
  • v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.
  • v. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

ruffianly

  • adj. Like or having the qualities of a ruffian.
  • adv. In the manner of a ruffian.

savage

  • adj. Wild; not cultivated.
  • adj. Barbaric; not civilized.
  • adj. Fierce and ferocious.
  • adj. Brutal, vicious, or merciless.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Unpleasant or unfair.
  • n. (pejorative) An uncivilized or feral human; a barbarian.
  • n. (figuratively) A defiant person.
  • v. To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint.
  • v. (figuratively) To criticise vehemently.
  • v. (of an animal) To attack with the teeth.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make savage.

slam-bang

  • adj. (onomatopoeia) Noisy, raucous.
  • adj. Violent, forceful.
  • adj. Impressive, exciting.
  • adv. Shot or hit with a noise.
  • n. (onomatopoeia) Noisy activity.

tearing

  • v. present participle of tear.
  • adj. very hasty.
  • n. The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
  • n. (computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered…
  • n. (medicine) continuous shedding of tears; epiphora.

terrorist

  • n. A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further…
  • n. An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
  • adj. Of or relating to terrorism.

tough

  • adj. Strong and resilient; sturdy.
  • adj. (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
  • adj. Rugged or physically hardy.
  • adj. Stubborn.
  • adj. (of weather etc) Harsh or severe.
  • adj. Rowdy or rough.
  • adj. (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
  • adj. (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
  • interj. (slang) Used to indicate lack of sympathy.
  • n. A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
  • v. To endure.
  • v. To toughen.

trigger-happy

  • adj. (idiomatic) Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying…
  • adj. (idiomatic) Inclined to behave recklessly or violently at the slightest provocation.

unnatural

  • adj. Not natural.
  • adj. Not occurring in nature, the environment or atmosphere.
  • adj. Going against nature; perverse.

unpeaceful

  • adj. Not peaceful, the opposite of peaceful.

vehement

  • adj. Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

wild

  • adj. Untamed; not domesticated.
  • adj. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
  • adj. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
  • adj. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
  • adj. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
  • adj. Enthusiastic.
  • adj. Inaccurate.
  • adj. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
  • adj. (nautical) Hard to steer; said of a vessel.
  • adj. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
  • adv. Inaccurately; not on target.
  • n. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) a wilderness.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially…

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