vehement

Meaning

Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

Synonyms

violent

ardent

passionate

impetuous

intense

fervent

fierce

heated

hot

🥵

fiery

furious

strong

trigger-happy

eager

keen

effervescent

irritable

tearing

avid

turbulent

raging

boisterous

burning

hearty

hectic

hot-blooded

hot-tempered

impassioned

impulsive

industrious

loud

manic

powerful

rabid

rage

😡

robust

roughshod

savage

sensual

severe

sizzling

splitting

stern

strenuous

sultry

swingeing

tempestuous

terrible

torrid

tremendous

vigorous

wild

zealous

rathe

given to anger

causing fear

excessively violent

most strong

hot and heavy

aggressive

enhusiastic

angry

😠

assiduous

awful

bad

👎

beardown

big

blustering

bold

brash

bruising

choleric

dashing

drastic

excitable

fanatic

fervid

firm

flaming

frantic

frenzied

groovy

heady

Translations

véhément

vehemente

heftig

vehement

ungestüm

heftig

violent

stürmisch

passionné

şiddetli

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈviː.ə.mənt/

Etymology

Cognate with French: véhément

Cognate with Italian: veemente

Cognate with Portuguese: veemente

Cognate with Spanish: vehemente

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French vehement (modern French véhément; compare Italian veemente, Portuguese veemente, Spanish vehemente); or from Latin vehemēns (“vehement; very eager; ardent, furious, impetuous; emphatic”), probably from vē- (“lacking, too little”) + mēns (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”).