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Violent vs Heady - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between violent and heady

is that violent is involving extreme force or motion while heady is intoxicating or stupefying.

As a verb violent

is to urge with violence.

As a noun violent

is an assailant.

violent

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Involving extreme force or motion.
  • A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
  • Involving physical conflict.
  • We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if needed.
  • Likely to use physical force.
  • The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent .
  • Intensely vivid.
  • The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
  • (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
  • * Shakespeare
  • These violent delights have violent ends.
  • * T. Burnet
  • No violent state can be perpetual.
  • * Milton
  • Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

    Antonyms

    * peaceful

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To urge with violence.
  • (Fuller)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An assailant.
  • ----

    heady

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • intoxicating or stupefying
  • * The cocktail was a heady mixture of spirits.
  • tending to upset the mind or senses
  • * We looked out from a heady outcrop of rock.
  • exhilarating
  • * The rock concert was a heady mixture of their greatest hits.
  • intellectual
  • * Kierkegaard is rather heady reading for a high school student.
  • rash or impetuous
  • * He made too heady promises, and when it came time, he was never able to fulfill them.
  • Derived terms

    * headily * headiness

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