Clues for the word "VIOLENT"
We've had 41 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 47 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on July 04, 2026.
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.
Referring Clues
- R-rated, often
- Furious
- Raging
- Tempestuous
- Wroth
- Like some crime
- Of hurricane-like proportions
- Stormy
- Meriting an R, perhaps
- On a rampage
- Like most M-rated video games
- Like a bad storm
- Brutal
- Extreme
- Like some bad weather
- Using great physical force
- Wild - not evil (anag)
- Intensely forceful
- Extreme north shrouded in reddish-blue
- New colour walls intense
- Not evil - maybe just lacking restraint
- Brutal - intense
- Wild flower containing nectar, primarily
- Wild
- Extreme(ly aggressive)
- Knight wears colour that's intense
- Wild flower appearing around end of autumn
- Ferocious
- Remarkable novel, it is intensely passionate
- Furious, squirts oil into the opening
- Wild flower absorbs nitrogen
- Wild flower masking end of garden
- Very powerful novel, Attica, about a cat somehow lacking
- Tending to use intimidatory force
- Wild flower without name
- Aggressive
- Wild flower name included
- Like many R-rated movies
- Wild not evil?
- Six-nil for a time? That's bad!
- Word that fills both parts of the Shakespeare quote "These ___ delights have ___ ends"
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - July 04, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - January 04, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 24, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - February 23, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 19, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - December 15, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - February 23, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 17, 2023
- Your Life Choices - November 17, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - September 30, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - November 23, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 17, 2017
- Mindfood Daily - October 01, 2017
- Your Life Choices - September 07, 2017
- Guardian Quick - June 01, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - April 24, 2017
- LA Times - March 26, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 03, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - October 14, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - March 31, 2016
- Guardian Quick - October 30, 2015
- Netword - October 10, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 15, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - December 11, 2014
- Guardian Quick - December 08, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 13, 2014
- Guardian Quick - June 11, 2014
- Wall Street Journal - April 25, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - November 14, 2013
- And in 17 more crossword puzzles...