VIOLENT Synonyms

• having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends

• tending to spread quickly

• characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• punishingly harsh

• resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

• disagreeably direct and precise

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• causing destruction or much damage

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• characterized by or full of force or strength (often but not necessarily physical)

• forceful and definite in expression or action

• of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles

• unpleasantly stern

• unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• severe

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• having or showing no mercy

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• never-ceasing

• having or caused by an irregular surface

• of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

• causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements

• not shaped by cutting or trimming

• the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short

• with roughness or violence (`rough' is an informal variant for `roughly')

• with rough motion as over a rough surface

• (of persons or behavior) lacking refinement or finesse

• not quite exact or correct

• full of hardship or trials

• violently agitated and turbulent

• unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound

• ready and able to resort to force or violence

• not carefully or expertly made

• not perfected

• unpleasantly stern

• unkind or cruel or uncivil

• prepare in preliminary or sketchy form

• without mercy or pity

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a cruelly rapacious person

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• wild and menacing

• without civilizing influences

• marked by extreme and violent energy

• attack brutally and fiercely

• criticize harshly or violently

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion

• characterized by violent emotions or behavior

• (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

• having the nature of vice

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful

• treat brutally

• make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman

• become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling

• a deep and vivid red color

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• characterized by violence or bloodshed

• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

• turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

• red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

• a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

• emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

• the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue

• of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

• characterized by violence or bloodshed

• (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

• shedding tears

• marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid