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Violent vs Shitstorm - What's the difference?

violent | shitstorm |

As nouns the difference between violent and shitstorm

is that violent is (obsolete) an assailant while shitstorm is shitstorm, outcry.

As an adjective violent

is involving extreme force or motion.

As a verb violent

is (archaic) to urge with violence.

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

    Related terms

    * violence

    Verb

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

    Noun

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

    shitstorm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (vulgar) A violent situation.
  • * 1948 . Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
    • The hell with Brown [...] He's been missing all the shit storms . It's his turn.
  • * 1963 . Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle , Chapter 110
    • 'Sometimes the pool-pah'',' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translates ''pool-pah'' at one point in ''The Books of Bokonon as 'shit storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.
  • * 1999 , Joseph Finder, High Crimes
    • "You and your cowboys just stirred up a shitstorm , agent."
  • * 2006 , David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
    • In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like a shitstorm', smells like a '''shitstorm''' and tastes like a ' shitstorm , it goes to homicide.
  • (idiomatic, vulgar) Considerable backlash from the public.
  • * 2010 , Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly , April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32:
    • When Abbott stated openly that his plan involved a new tax of 1.7% on large companies with big profit margins - those, in fact, most able to pay - he provoked a near universal shitstorm .

    Descendants

    * German: (l)