Definition of violent

• a. - Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
• a. - Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
• a. - Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
• n. - An assailant.
• v. t. - To urge with violence.
• v. i. - To be violent; to act violently.