violent

From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). For the verb, compare French violenter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ(ə)lənt/
• Rhymes: -aɪlənt
• Hyphenation: vi‧o‧lent, vio‧lent

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violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)

1. Involving extreme force or motion.

   A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.

2. Involving physical conflict.

   We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.

3. Likely to use physical force.

   The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.

4. Intensely vivid.

   The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by 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 […]

5. (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     These violent delights have violent ends.

   • (Can we date this quote?) T. Burnet

     No violent state can be perpetual.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

• peaceful

• violence

violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.

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violent (plural violents)

1. (obsolete) An assailant.

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Borrowed from Latin violentus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi.oˈlent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi.uˈlen/

violent (feminine violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)

1. violent

• violentament

• violència

• “violent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “violent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Borrowed into Old French from Latin violentus.

• IPA^(key): /vjɔ.lɑ̃/

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violent (feminine singular violente, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)

1. violent

Inflected forms.

• IPA^(key): /vjɔl/

violent

1. inflection of violer:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

• ventilo, voilent

• “violent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

violent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of violō

• vyolent, wyolent, vilent

From Old French violent, from Latin violentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˌviːɔlˈɛnt/, /ˌviːəlˈɛnt/, /viəlˈɛnt/, /ˈviːəlɛnt/

violent (plural and weak singular violente)

1. Violent, forcible, injury-causing.
2. Potent, mighty, damaging, forceful
3. Severe, extreme; excessive in magnitude.
4. Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
5. Abrupt; happening without warning or notice.
6. (rare) Despotic, authoritarian; ruling unfairly.

• violence
• violently

• English: violent

• “vī̆olent, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.

From Latin violentus.

violent m (feminine singular violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentas)

1. violent

• violéncia

Borrowed from Latin violentus.

violent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular violent or violente)

1. violent (using violence)

• → Middle English: violent, vyolent, wyolent, vilent
  • English: violent
• French: violent

• IPA^(key): /vjuˈlɛŋt/

violent

1. violent

Borrowed from French violent, Latin violentus.

• IPA^(key): /vi.oˈlent/

violent m or n (feminine singular violentă, masculine plural violenți, feminine and neuter plural violente)

1. violent

• violență