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| Main Entry: | violent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destructive |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, bloodthirsty, brutal, crazy, cruel, desperate, distraught, disturbed, enraged, fierce, fiery, forceful, forcible, frantic, furious, great, headstrong, homicidal, hotheaded*, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, inflamed, intemperate, mad, maniacal, mighty, murderous, passionate, potent, powerful, raging, riotous, rough, savage, strong, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vicious, wild, aroused, coercive, demoniac, fuming, maddened |
| Antonyms: | gentle, passive, peaceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | violent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, extreme |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, biting, blustery, concentrated, devastating, excruciating, exquisite, forceful, forcible, great, harsh, immoderate, inordinate, intense, mighty, outrageous, painful, potent, powerful, raging, rough, ruinous, sharp, strong, tempestuous, terrible, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, wild, coercive, gale force |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | agonizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult and painful, suffering |
| Synonyms: | disturbing, excruciating, extreme, fierce, harrowing, intense, tortuous, vehement, violent, racking, struggling, tearing, tormenting, torturing |
| Main Entry: | berserk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazed |
| Synonyms: | crazy, demented, deranged, insane, mad, maniacal, manic, violent |
| Main Entry: | blustery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stormy |
| Synonyms: | gusty, inclement, raging, rough, tempestuous, turbulent, violent, wild, windy, gusting, howling, roaring |
| Antonyms: | calm, still |
| Main Entry: | choppy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wavy |
| Synonyms: | inclement, rough, uneven, violent, wild, ripply |
| Antonyms: | calm, smooth |
| Main Entry: | demonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | bad, crazed, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, fired, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hellish, impious, infernal, insane, inspired, mad, maniacal, manic, possessed, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, violent, wicked, aroused, demoniac, demoniacal |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
| Main Entry: | driving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forceful |
| Synonyms: | active, compelling, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, lively, sweeping, urging, vigorous, violent, galvanic, impellent, propulsive |
| Antonyms: | weak, unforceful, wimpy |
| Main Entry: | excitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset or inspired |
| Synonyms: | demonstrative, edgy, emotional, enthusiastic, fidgety, fierce, fiery, hasty, high-strung, hot-tempered, hysterical, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, intolerant, irascible, mercurial, moody, nervous, neurotic, passionate, peevish, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, restless, sensitive, skittish, susceptible, temperamental, testy, touchy, uncontrolled, uneasy, vehement, violent, volatile, agitable, alarmable, galvanic, hot-headed, overzealous, short fused, volcanic |
| Antonyms: | calm, easy, insensitive, laid-back, passive, uninspired, easy-going, unexcitable |
| Main Entry: | excruciating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | torturous, painful |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, burning, consuming, exquisite, extreme, grueling, harrowing, insufferable, intense, piercing, punishing, severe, sharp, shooting, unbearable, violent, chastening, racking, rending, searing, stabbing, tearing, tormenting, torturesome, torturing, unendurable |
| Antonyms: | bearable, endurable, helpful, pleasant, pleasing, soothing |
| Main Entry: | explosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | volatile, dangerous |
| Synonyms: | bursting, charged, consequential, ebullient, fiery, forceful, frenzied, hazardous, impetuous, meteoric, overwrought, perilous, raging, rampant, stormy, tense, touchy, ugly, uncontrollable, unstable, vehement, violent, wild, at the boiling point, convulsive, detonating, detonative, eruptive, fulminant, fulminating |
| Antonyms: | calm, peaceful, safe |
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, narrow-minded, obsessed, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous, bugged, high on, monomaniacal, nuts for, obsessive, turned on |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fiery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | passionate; on fire |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, afire, alight, blazing, burning, choleric, combustible, enthusiastic, excitable, febrile, fervid, feverish, fierce, flaming, flickering, flushed, glowing, heated, hot, hot-tempered*, impassioned, impetuous, impulsive, inflamed, intense, irascible, irritable, madcap, peppery, precipitate, red-hot*, spirited, unrestrained, vehement, violent, aflame, agitable, conflagrant, fevered, flaring, hot-blooded, hot-headed, igneous, ignited, in flames, perfervid |
| Antonyms: | cold, cool, dull, flat, impassive, subdued |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
| Synonyms: | cogent, commanding, compelling, convincing, dominant, dynamic, electric, elemental, energetic, forcible, gutsy*, mighty, persuasive, pithy, potent, punch, punchy*, steamroller, stringent, strong, telling, titanic, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, weighty, ball of fire, bullish, coming on strong, constraining, powerhouse, puissant, take-charge, take-over |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
| Antonyms: | feeble, impotent, ineffective, meek, weak, unforceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forcible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | powerful, aggressive |
| Synonyms: | active, armed, assertive, cogent, compelling, compulsory, drastic, effective, efficient, energetic, forceful, impressive, intense, mighty, militant, persuasive, potent, strong, telling, valid, vehement, vigorous, violent, weighty, coercive, puissant |
| Antonyms: | weak, nonaggressive |
| Main Entry: | frantic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressed, distracted |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, at wits' end, berserk, beside oneself*, corybantic, crazy, delirious, deranged, distraught, excited, flipped out, fraught, freaked out, frenetic, frenzied, furious, hectic, hot and bothered*, hot under the collar*, hyper, in a stew, in a tizzy, insane, keyed up, mad, out of control, overwrought, rabid, raging, raving, shook up, spazzed out, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped, violent, weird, weirded out, wigged out, wild, wired*, worked up, zonkers |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, docile, peaceful, tranquil |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homicidal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | murderous |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, deadly, lethal, maniacal, violent, slaughterous |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, carried away, convulsive, fuming, in a fit, maddened, seething, unnerved, worked up |
| Antonyms: | calm, serene, controlled |
| Main Entry: | impassioned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | excited, vehement |
| Synonyms: | animated, ardent, blazing, burning, deep, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, furious, glowing, heated*, inflamed, inspired, intense, melodramatic, moving, mushy, passionate, powerful, profound, red-hot*, romantic, rousing, sentimental, starry-eyed*, stirring, torrid, violent, vivid, warm, zealous, fired up, hot-blooded, overemotional, perfervid, steamed up, white-hot, wild about, worked up |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, calm, cool, impassive, indifferent, unconcerned, unexcited |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impatient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable, unwilling to wait |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agog, antsy, anxious, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, brusque, chafing, choleric, curt, demanding, dying to, eager, edgy, feverish, fretful, hasty, having short fuse, headlong, hot under collar, hot-tempered, impetuous, indignant, intolerant, irascible, irritable, itchy, keen, on pins and needles, quick-tempered, racing one's motor, restless, ripe*, snappy, straining, sudden, testy, thirsty, unforbearing, unindulgent, vehement, violent |
| Antonyms: | controlled, easy-going, enduring, forbearing, laid-back, patient, tolerant, waiting, willing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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