Acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity.

Effected by force or injury rather than natural causes.

of colors or sounds Intensely vivid or loud:
— A violent clash of colors.
— Her dress was a violent red.
— A violent noise.

synoniem: wild.

Roget 900: angry, wrath, irate; ireful, wrathful; cross etc. (irascible) 901; Achillean^†; sulky, etc. 901.1; bitter, virulent; acrimonious etc. (discourteous) etc. 895; violent etc. 173.    warm, burning; boiling, boiling over; fuming, raging; foaming, foaming at the mouth; convulsed with rage.    offended etc. v.; waxy, acharne; wrought, worked up; indignant, hurt, sore; set against.    fierce, wild, rageful^†, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage; relentless etc. 919.    flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.    ... meer laten zien

Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid:
— Violent passions.

synoniemen: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement.

Roget 173: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.    turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging etc. v.; troublous^†, riotous; tumultuary^†, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied etc. (insane) 503.    desperate etc. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.    fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.    savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.    excited etc. v.; unquelled^†, unquenched, unextinguished^†, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable^†; uncontrollable, incontrollable^†; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.    spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating etc. v.; volcanic, meteoric; stormy etc. (wind) 349.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 825: excitable, easily excited, in an excitable state; high-strung; irritable etc. (irascible) 901; impatient, intolerant.    feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed.    unquiet, mercurial, electric, galvanic, hasty, hurried, restless, fidgety, fussy; chafing etc. v.. startlish^†, mettlesome, high-mettled^†, skittish.    vehement, demonstrative, violent, wild, furious, fierce, fiery, hot-headed, madcap.    overzealous, enthusiastic, impassioned, fanatical; rabid etc. (eager) 865.    rampant, clamorous, uproarious, turbulent, tempestuous, tumultuary^†, boisterous.    impulsive, impetuous, passionate; uncontrolled, uncontrollable; ungovernable, irrepressible, stanchless^†, inextinguishable, burning, simmering, volcanic, ready to burst forth, volatile.    excited, exciting etc. 824.    ... meer laten zien

Characterized by violence or bloodshed.

synoniemen: crimson, red.

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