violent

adj

1. strong, powerful, mighty, potent, forceful, great; uncontrolled, unrestrained, untamed, unbridled, savage; stormy, tempestuous, turbulent, wroth, rampageous; roaring, howling, raging, storming, shrieking; explosvie, volcanic, dangerous, perilous, dreadful.

2. destructive, ruinous, dire, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; devastating, wasting, ravaging; injurious, harmful, hurtful, damaging, detrimental; deleterious, baneful, pernicious; deadly, fell, fatal, lethal, killing, murderous; cruel, raw, brutal, barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutish, beastly, inhuman; ruthless, pitiless, merciless, relentless, implacable; wild, crazed, uncontrollable, ungovernable, like a wild bull, seeing red, rough, Brit. Dial. lungeous; disorderly, clamorous, knock-down-drag-out, tumultuous, rowdy, roisterous.

3. severe, extreme, excessive, harsh, intense; unremitting, inexorable, persistent, unyielding; distressing, agonizing, torturous, tormenting, excruciating, racking, painful; unbearable, overpowering, overwhelming; stinging, piercing, biting, penetrating; acute, keen, sharp, exquisite, poignant; extraordinary, abnormal, unnatural, unusual; rigorous, stern, grim, hard, forbidding, draconian, drastic.

4. vehement, ardent, impassioned, fervid, fervent, intent, excited, perfervid; burning, fiery, blazing, hot, red-hot; raving, mad, wild-eyed, running amuck, irrational, insane; lusty, passionate, stirred up, on fire.

5. furious, frenzied, frenetic, feverish, frantic, fast and furious; impetuous, impulsive, headstrong, headlong, rash, unheeding, unthinking; fierce, ferocious, daring, Inf. hellbent.