adv
Meaning 1
In a violent manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
violently
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈvaɪ(ə)ləntli/
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CMU ARPABET: V AY1 AH0 L AH0 N T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: V AY1 L AH0 N T L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
To an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I found myself violently disagreeing with him.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a violent manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they attacked violently
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonviolently
History
Etymology
From Middle English violently; equivalent to violent + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بِعُنْف (bi-ʕunf) — in a violent manner
- Arabic: بعنف (beʕunf) — in a violent manner
- Catalan: violentament — in a violent manner
- Dutch: gewelddadig — in a violent manner
- French: violemment — in a violent manner
- Galician: violentamente — in a violent manner
- German: gewalttätig — in a violent manner
- Hungarian: erőszakosan — in a violent manner
- Icelandic: ofsalega — in a violent manner
- Ido: violentoze — in a violent manner
- Italian: violentamente — in a violent manner
- Middle English: violently — in a violent manner
- Portuguese: violentamente — in a violent manner
- Romanian: violent — in a violent manner
- Romanian: cu violență — in a violent manner
- Sanskrit: रभसा (rabhasā) — in a violent manner
- Spanish: violentamente — in a violent manner
- Spanish: a lo bestia — in a violent manner
- Hungarian: hevesen — to an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely
- Hungarian: erőteljesen — to an intense degree; extremely; strongly; intensely