vehement

Speech parts

1. vehement - Adjective

2. vehement - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.

Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent; passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

violent hot burning fierce eager furious passionate tearing ardent fervid strong stormy flaming powerful extreme
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Antonyms

meek stoic phlegmatic cold weak remote
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. Anthony Trollope

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them. Friedrich Schiller

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. Nick Cave

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. Alfred Adler

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. Eric Hoffer

Close letter words and terms

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