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violent definition
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This page has 22 definitions of violent with English translations in 8 languages. Violent is an adjective, verb and noun. Examples of how to use violent in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English violent definition
Etymology
From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ.ə.lənt/, /ˈvaɪ.lənt/
- Rhymes: -aɪlənt
- Hyphenation: vi‧o‧lent, vio‧lent
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Adjective
violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)
- Involving extreme force or motion.
- A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
- Involving physical conflict.
- We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
- Likely to use physical force.
- The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
- Intensely vivid.
- The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
- We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]
- Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene vi]:
- These violent delights have violent ends.
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
- and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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Verb
violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)
- (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315:
- a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial
Noun
violent (plural violents)
- (obsolete) An assailant.
- 1667, Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety:
- 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.
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Catalan violent definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
violent (feminine violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
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Further reading
- “violent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “violent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “violent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “violent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French violent definition
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French violent, borrowed from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
violent (feminine violente, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vjɔl/
- Homophones: viole, violes
Verb
violent
Anagrams
Further reading
- “violent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin violent definition
Verb
violent
Middle English violent definition
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French violent, from Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
violent (plural and weak singular violente)
- Violent, forcible, injury-causing.
- Potent, mighty, damaging, forceful
- Severe, extreme; excessive in magnitude.
- Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
- Abrupt; happening without warning or notice.
- (rare) Despotic, authoritarian; ruling unfairly.
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Descendants
- English: violent
References
- “vī̆olent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.
Occitan violent definition
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Adjective
violent m (feminine singular violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentas)
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Old French violent definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentus.
Adjective
violent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular violent or violente)
- violent (using violence)
Descendants
Piedmontese violent definition
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Adjective
violent
Romanian violent definition
Etymology
Borrowed from French violent, Latin violentus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
violent m or n (feminine singular violentă, masculine plural violenți, feminine and neuter plural violente)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | violent | violentă | violenți | violente | ||
definite | violentul | violenta | violenții | violentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | violent | violente | violenți | violente | ||
definite | violentului | violentei | violenților | violentelor |