vehement

The word “vehement” has 3 syllables: ve-he-ment

It's pronounced as /ˈviːəmənt/


What is synonym and antonym for vehement?

In the thesaurus, “vehement” has 143 synonyms and 56 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vehement along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vehement

  • absolute
  • accentuated
  • acute
  • aggravated
  • aggressive
  • almighty
  • angry
  • ardent
  • arresting
  • assertive
  • blazing
  • blistering
  • burning
  • categoric
  • categorical
  • charged
  • clear
  • compelling
  • concentrated
  • conspicuous
  • decided
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delirious
  • demonstrative
  • desperate
  • dreadful
  • dynamic
  • eager
  • earnest
  • emotional
  • emphasized
  • emphatic
  • enamored
  • energetic
  • enhanced
  • enthusiastic
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • feverish
  • fierce
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • forceful
  • forcible
  • frantic
  • frenzied
  • frightful
  • full-blooded
  • furious
  • ghastly
  • glowing
  • gung ho
  • gushing
  • gushy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hearty
  • heated
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • histrionic
  • hopped up
  • hot
  • hot-blooded
  • hyper
  • impassioned
  • impelling
  • impetuous
  • incandescent
  • infatuated
  • inflamed
  • insistent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • keen
  • lively
  • magnified
  • marked
  • maudlin
  • mawkish
  • melodramatic
  • muscular
  • mushy
  • noticeable
  • obsessed
  • on fire
  • on the make
  • orgiastic
  • overemotional
  • overexcited
  • overheated
  • passional
  • passionate
  • perfervid
  • plain
  • pointed
  • potent
  • powerful
  • profound
  • pronounced
  • rabid
  • red-hot
  • religious
  • resounding
  • rigorous
  • saccharine
  • sappy
  • schmaltzy
  • sentimental
  • severe
  • sloppy
  • strenuous
  • stressed
  • striking
  • strong
  • sugary
  • superheated
  • terrible
  • thorough
  • torrid
  • unambiguous
  • unequivocal
  • uninhibited
  • unreserved
  • unrestrained
  • vicious
  • vigorous
  • violent
  • warm
  • warm-blooded
  • wild
  • zealous

Antonyms for vehement

  • abated
  • alleviated
  • ambiguous
  • apathetic
  • calm
  • cold
  • cool
  • decreased
  • detached
  • diminished
  • dispassionate
  • dry
  • eased
  • emotionless
  • equivocal
  • feeble
  • gentle
  • guarded
  • halting
  • happy
  • hesitant
  • impassive
  • impersonal
  • impotent
  • indifferent
  • ineffective
  • lessened
  • lethargic
  • light
  • lightened
  • meek
  • mild
  • moderate
  • moderated
  • nonassertive
  • nonemphatic
  • objective
  • peaceful
  • pleased
  • qualified
  • reduced
  • reserved
  • shallow
  • soft
  • subdued
  • superficial
  • uncompelling
  • undemonstrative
  • understated
  • unemotional
  • unemphatic
  • unenthusiastic
  • unexcited
  • unpassionate
  • weak
  • wishy-washy

Meanings of vehement

  • adjective
    1. Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

Example Sentences

  • She expressed her disagreement with vehement objections during the meeting.
  • The crowd's reaction to the proposal was vehement, with many shouting their disapproval.
  • His support for the cause was vehement, as he believed strongly in its importance.
  • The debate became vehement as both sides passionately argued their points.
  • Despite his normally calm demeanor, his response to the criticism was unexpectedly vehement.

On this page you'll find 199 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vehement, such as: abated, absolute, accentuated, acute, aggravated, aggressive, alleviated.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

eager

  • acquisitive
  • agog
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • ardent
  • athirst
  • avid
  • breathless
  • champing at the bit
  • chomping at the bit
  • covetous
  • craving
  • crazy
  • desiring
  • desirous
  • disposed
  • dying to
  • earnest
  • engaged
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • excited
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • game
  • geeked
  • glad
  • great
  • greedy
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hankering
  • happy
  • heated
  • hepped up
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • hot to trot
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • impatient
  • inclined
  • intent
  • interested
  • juiced
  • keen
  • longing
  • nuts
  • obsessed
  • pining
  • pumped
  • raring
  • ready
  • ready and willing
  • restive
  • restless
  • self-starting
  • solicitous
  • stoked
  • thirsty
  • unreluctant
  • vehement
  • voracious
  • warmblooded
  • wild
  • willing
  • wishful
  • yearning
  • zealous

earnest

  • absorption
  • ardent
  • attentiveness
  • businesslike
  • busy
  • close
  • concentration
  • constant
  • decisiveness
  • deliberation
  • determination
  • determined
  • devoted
  • dignified
  • diligent
  • distinguished
  • eager
  • earnestness
  • elevated
  • engrossment
  • enthrallment
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • firm
  • firmness
  • fixed
  • for real
  • gloomy
  • grave
  • graveness
  • gravitas
  • gravity
  • grim
  • harsh
  • heartfelt
  • humorless
  • humorlessness
  • immersion
  • impassioned
  • industrious
  • intensity
  • intent
  • intentness
  • keen
  • mean business
  • meaningful
  • no-fooling
  • no-nonsense
  • passionate
  • perseverant
  • playing hard ball
  • po-faced
  • professional
  • purposeful
  • purposefulness
  • resolute
  • resoluteness
  • resolve
  • resolved
  • sedate
  • sedulous
  • serious
  • serious-minded
  • serious-mindedness
  • seriousness
  • severe
  • sincere
  • sober
  • soberness
  • sobersided
  • sobriety
  • solemn
  • solemnity
  • solemnness
  • somber
  • stable
  • staid
  • staidness
  • steady
  • stern
  • strict
  • thoughtful
  • uncomic
  • unsmiling
  • urgent
  • vehement
  • warm
  • weighty
  • wholehearted
  • zealous

hacked

  • abided
  • abode
  • absorbed
  • accepted
  • acquiesced
  • addressed
  • afraid
  • aghast
  • all in
  • allowed
  • antsy
  • apprehensive
  • basket case
  • beat
  • bent
  • bent out of shape
  • beside oneself
  • bided
  • bleary
  • bode
  • boiling
  • bore
  • brooked
  • brought off
  • browned off
  • buffaloed
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • burned out
  • burned up
  • butterflies
  • came to grips with
  • capitulated
  • careful
  • carried off
  • carried out
  • choked
  • clutched
  • commanded
  • concerned
  • controlled
  • corybantic
  • countenanced
  • crazed
  • dead
  • dead tired
  • demented
  • depleted
  • desperate
  • directed
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • dogged
  • dragging
  • dreading
  • effete
  • endured
  • engineered
  • enraged
  • exasperated
  • far-gone
  • fearful
  • fidgety
  • fielded
  • fierce
  • finessed
  • fit to be tied
  • foaming at the mouth
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • fuming
  • furious
  • got off
  • guided
  • had a grip on
  • handled
  • hopping mad
  • hot and bothered
  • huffy
  • hyper
  • in a state
  • in a tizzy
  • in a towering rage
  • in suspense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • infuriated
  • insane
  • irate
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • jittery
  • jockeyed
  • jumpy
  • lived with
  • livid
  • mad
  • maddened
  • managed
  • maneuvered
  • maniac
  • manipulated
  • met
  • micromanaged
  • miffed
  • negotiated
  • nervous
  • nervy
  • overwrought
  • peeved
  • permitted
  • played
  • pocketed
  • pooped
  • pulled
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • ran
  • regulated
  • respected
  • restless
  • riled
  • rousted
  • rubbed the wrong way
  • run
  • scared
  • shaking
  • shaky
  • shivery
  • shook-up
  • shot to pieces
  • smoking
  • solicitous
  • spent
  • spooked
  • steamed
  • steamed up
  • steered
  • stomached
  • stood
  • stood for
  • strung-out
  • stuck out
  • suffered
  • supported
  • sustained
  • swallowed
  • sweat out
  • sweated out
  • sweating bullets
  • swung
  • taut
  • tolerated
  • took
  • toughed it out
  • treated
  • troubled
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • unquiet
  • unreasonable
  • up in arms
  • uptight
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • washed-out
  • watchful
  • weary
  • went
  • wiped-out
  • wired
  • wore
  • worn-out
  • worried sick
  • wrathful
  • wreck

keen

  • A-OK
  • A1
  • Einstein
  • OK
  • accentuated
  • acceptable
  • accurate
  • acid
  • acute
  • adequate
  • aggravated
  • agog
  • agonizing
  • alert
  • all right
  • almighty
  • ambitious
  • amenable
  • anguish
  • animate
  • animated
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • appetent
  • apt
  • ardent
  • astute
  • athirst
  • avid
  • awesome
  • bang-up
  • banner
  • bawl
  • bay
  • beautiful
  • beef
  • bellyache
  • bemoan
  • better
  • bewail
  • bitch
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleat
  • blistering
  • blubber
  • blue-chip
  • blue-ribbon
  • boffo
  • bonnie
  • bonny
  • boss
  • brag
  • brainy
  • brave
  • breathless
  • bright
  • brilliant
  • brisk
  • bully
  • bumper
  • canny
  • capital
  • carp
  • caterwaul
  • caustic
  • cavil
  • cerebral
  • champing at the bit
  • choice
  • chomping at the bit
  • classic
  • classical
  • clawlike
  • clear
  • clever
  • complain
  • complaint
  • concentrated
  • cool
  • corking
  • corrosive
  • covetous
  • crab
  • crackerjack
  • cracking
  • crafty
  • craving
  • crazy
  • creative
  • cri de coeur
  • croak
  • cry
  • cunning
  • cutting
  • daggerlike
  • dandy
  • decent
  • deep
  • deepened
  • delicate
  • deplore
  • desirous
  • devoted
  • discerning
  • discriminating
  • disposed
  • divine
  • dolor
  • dope
  • down
  • dreadful
  • dying to
  • dynamite
  • eager
  • earnest
  • ebullient
  • edged
  • edgy
  • educated
  • emphasized
  • engaged
  • enhanced
  • enthused
  • enthusiastic
  • erudite
  • excellent
  • exceptional
  • excited
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fab
  • fabulous
  • famous
  • fancy
  • fantabulous
  • fantastic
  • fast
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • ferocious
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • fierce
  • fine
  • first-class
  • first-rate
  • first-string
  • five-star
  • fond of
  • four-star
  • foxy
  • fret
  • frightful
  • frontline
  • furious
  • fuss
  • game
  • gangbuster
  • gangbusters
  • geeked
  • genial
  • ghastly
  • gilt-edge
  • gilt-edged
  • glad
  • gone
  • good
  • grand
  • great
  • greedy
  • grief
  • grieving
  • gripe
  • grizzle
  • groan
  • groovy
  • grouch
  • ground
  • grouse
  • growl
  • grumble
  • grump
  • gung ho
  • gung-ho
  • hair-trigger
  • hand-wringing
  • hankering
  • happy
  • hard
  • harsh
  • heady
  • heartache
  • heartbreak
  • heavenly
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • hepped up
  • high-class
  • high-grade
  • high-test
  • highbrow
  • holler
  • honed
  • hopped-up
  • hot
  • howl
  • hung up
  • hungry
  • hype
  • hyperacute
  • hyperintelligent
  • hypersensitive
  • immense
  • impassioned
  • impatient
  • incisive
  • inclined
  • informed
  • ingenious
  • insightful
  • intelligent
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • intent
  • interested
  • inveigh
  • inventive
  • invigorating
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • jim-dandy
  • judicious
  • juiced
  • kick
  • kick up a fuss
  • kick up a stink
  • knifelike
  • knowing
  • knowledgeable
  • kvetch
  • lacerating
  • lament
  • lamentation
  • learned
  • literate
  • lively
  • logical
  • longing
  • lovely
  • magnified
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • maunder
  • mean
  • moan
  • mourning
  • murmur
  • mutter
  • nag
  • neat
  • needlelike
  • nifty
  • nimble
  • nippy
  • noble
  • number one
  • numero uno
  • nuts
  • observant
  • obsessed
  • okay
  • out of this world
  • out-of-sight
  • outcry
  • oversensitive
  • par excellence
  • passable
  • peachy
  • peachy keen
  • penetrating
  • perceptive
  • percipient
  • perfervid
  • perspicacious
  • phat
  • piercing
  • pining
  • plaint
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • precise
  • premium
  • prickly
  • prime
  • primo
  • prize
  • prizewinning
  • profound
  • protest
  • prudent
  • pumped
  • quality
  • quibble
  • quick
  • quick-witted
  • radical
  • raring
  • rational
  • raw
  • razor-sharp
  • ready
  • reasonable
  • receptive
  • regret
  • repine
  • resourceful
  • restive
  • restless
  • righteous
  • rigorous
  • sagacious
  • sage
  • sane
  • sapient
  • sardonic
  • satirical
  • satisfactory
  • savvy
  • scholarly
  • schooled
  • scratching
  • scream
  • screech
  • select
  • sensational
  • sensible
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • sharp as a tack
  • sharp-witted
  • sharpened
  • shrewd
  • shriek
  • shrill
  • skilled
  • slick
  • smart
  • smarting
  • snappy
  • sob
  • solicitous
  • sorrow
  • sorrowing
  • sound
  • special
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • sprightly
  • squall
  • squawk
  • squeal
  • stabbing
  • standard
  • stellar
  • sterling
  • stew
  • stinging
  • stoked
  • stressed
  • strong
  • stropped
  • subtle
  • suffering
  • superb
  • superfine
  • superior
  • superlative
  • supernal
  • supersensitive
  • supersmart
  • swell
  • tart
  • tears
  • terrible
  • terrific
  • thirsty
  • thorough
  • tingling
  • tip-top
  • tolerable
  • too much
  • top
  • top-notch
  • top-of-the-line
  • top-shelf
  • topflight
  • topping
  • traditional
  • trained
  • trenchant
  • ultrasmart
  • ululate
  • unblunted
  • unreluctant
  • unsurpassed
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent
  • vivacious
  • voracious
  • wail
  • warm
  • weeping
  • well-read
  • whetted
  • whimper
  • whine
  • whinge
  • whiz
  • wild
  • willing
  • wily
  • wise
  • wizard
  • woe
  • wonderful
  • worry
  • yammer
  • yaup
  • yawp
  • yell
  • yelp
  • yowl
  • zealous

mad

  • aberrant
  • absurd
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • acrimoniousness
  • acrimony
  • affront
  • aggravate
  • aggravated
  • aggravation
  • agitated
  • air rage
  • airheaded
  • amok
  • amuck
  • anger
  • angered
  • angriness
  • angry
  • animosity
  • annoy
  • annoyance
  • annoyed
  • antagonism
  • antagonistic
  • antagonize
  • antipathetic
  • antipathy
  • antisocial
  • ape
  • apoplectic
  • ardent
  • argumentative
  • around the bend
  • asinine
  • avid
  • ballistic
  • balmy
  • bananas
  • barmy
  • bats
  • batty
  • bearish
  • bedlam
  • belligerence
  • belligerent
  • bent out of shape
  • berserk
  • bile
  • bilious
  • biliousness
  • birdbrained
  • birse
  • bitter
  • bitterness
  • blowup
  • blue in the face
  • boiling
  • bonkers
  • boobish
  • brain-dead
  • brainless
  • brainsick
  • bristling
  • bristly
  • bubbleheaded
  • buffoonish
  • bughouse
  • burning
  • cantankerous
  • certifiable
  • chafe
  • cheesed off
  • choler
  • choleric
  • chowderheaded
  • chuckleheaded
  • churlish
  • clownish
  • clueless
  • cockeyed
  • cold
  • concentrated
  • contempt
  • contentious
  • contentiousness
  • contrariness
  • contrary
  • cool
  • crabby
  • crackbrained
  • cracked
  • crackers
  • crackpot
  • crankiness
  • cranky
  • crazed
  • crazy
  • cross
  • cuckoo
  • daffy
  • daft
  • dander
  • delirious
  • delirium
  • delusional
  • delusionary
  • demented
  • dense
  • depressed
  • deranged
  • devoted
  • dim
  • dim-witted
  • dippy
  • disagreeable
  • disapproving
  • disordered
  • disputatious
  • disputatiousness
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distraught
  • disturbed
  • doltish
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • dorky
  • dotty
  • dudgeon
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dunderheaded
  • dyspeptic
  • eccentric
  • embitter
  • embittered
  • embitterment
  • empoisonment
  • empty-headed
  • enamoured
  • enflame
  • enflamed
  • enmity
  • enrage
  • enraged
  • enthused
  • envenom
  • envy
  • exasperate
  • exasperated
  • exasperation
  • excessive
  • exorbitant
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • fallacious
  • fanatical
  • farcical
  • fatuous
  • featherheaded
  • feebleminded
  • ferocious
  • feverish
  • fey
  • fierce
  • fit to be tied
  • fixated
  • flare
  • flare-up
  • foaming
  • fond
  • fool
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frantic
  • frenetic
  • frenzied
  • fretful
  • frigid
  • fruity
  • fuming
  • furious
  • furor
  • fury
  • fussy
  • gaga
  • get
  • going crook
  • gormless
  • grouchy
  • grudge
  • grumpy
  • half-baked
  • half-witted
  • harebrained
  • haywire
  • heat
  • high-pressured
  • hooked
  • hopping
  • hopping mad
  • horn-mad
  • hostility
  • hot
  • hot under the collar
  • hot-headedness
  • huff
  • huffy
  • hysteric
  • hysterical
  • icy
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ill-advised
  • ill-humored
  • ill-tempered
  • illogical
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoderate
  • impassioned
  • impractical
  • imprudent
  • in a fume
  • in a huff
  • in a pet
  • incense
  • incensed
  • indignant
  • indignation
  • inept
  • infatuated
  • inflame
  • inflamed
  • inflammable
  • infuriate
  • infuriated
  • inimical
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intense
  • intensive
  • invalid
  • irascibility
  • irascible
  • irascibleness
  • irate
  • irateness
  • ire
  • ireful
  • irrational
  • irritability
  • irritable
  • irritate
  • irritated
  • irritation
  • jaundice
  • jealousy
  • jerky
  • keen
  • knuckleheaded
  • kookie
  • kooky
  • lamebrain
  • lamebrained
  • laughable
  • lavish
  • livid
  • lividity
  • lividness
  • loco
  • looney
  • looney tunes
  • loony
  • loony tunes
  • loopy
  • ludicrous
  • lunatic
  • lunkheaded
  • madden
  • madness
  • malevolence
  • malevolent
  • malice
  • maniac
  • maniacal
  • mental
  • meshuga
  • meshugah
  • meshuggah
  • meshugge
  • miff
  • mindless
  • monomaniac
  • monomaniacal
  • mood
  • moonstruck
  • moronic
  • nettle
  • neurotic
  • non compos mentis
  • nonrational
  • nonsensical
  • notional
  • nuclear
  • nuts
  • nutty
  • oafish
  • obsessed
  • obsessive-compulsive
  • obtuse
  • odd
  • oddball
  • of unsound mind
  • off
  • offend
  • opaque
  • orneriness
  • ornery
  • out to lunch
  • outburst
  • outrage
  • outraged
  • overmuch
  • overweening
  • paranoiac
  • paranoic
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • passion
  • passionate
  • peeve
  • peevish
  • perturbed
  • pet
  • petulant
  • pinheaded
  • pique
  • piqued
  • pixilated
  • pixillated
  • potty
  • preposterous
  • provoke
  • psycho
  • psychotic
  • pugnacious
  • pugnaciousness
  • pugnacity
  • put out
  • quarrelsome
  • quarrelsomeness
  • queer
  • querulous
  • querulousness
  • quick-tempered
  • rabid
  • rage
  • raging
  • rancor
  • rancorous
  • rankle
  • rankled
  • ranting
  • raving
  • reckless
  • resentful
  • resentment
  • ridiculous
  • rile
  • riled
  • riley
  • rise
  • risky
  • road rage
  • roil
  • roiled
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • sappy
  • scatty
  • schizoid
  • schizophrenic
  • screwball
  • screwy
  • seeing red
  • seething
  • senseless
  • shirty
  • silly
  • simple
  • simpleminded
  • sizzling
  • slow
  • slow burn
  • slow-witted
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • snappish
  • sociopathic
  • soft
  • softheaded
  • sore
  • sorehead
  • soreheaded
  • spite
  • spiteful
  • spleen
  • steam up
  • steamed up
  • steaming
  • stormy
  • strange
  • stupid
  • sulky
  • surd
  • teched
  • teed off
  • temper
  • testy
  • tetched
  • thick
  • thickheaded
  • thoughtless
  • tick off
  • ticked
  • tomfool
  • touched
  • touchy
  • unbalanced
  • unconscionable
  • unconsidered
  • undue
  • unfriendly
  • unhinged
  • unintelligent
  • unpleasant
  • unreasonable
  • unreasoned
  • unreasoning
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unstable
  • unwise
  • vacuous
  • vehement
  • vengeful
  • vengefulness
  • venom
  • very upset
  • vex
  • vexation
  • vindictive
  • vindictiveness
  • violent
  • virulence
  • virulent
  • vitriol
  • vitriolic
  • wacko
  • wacky
  • warmth
  • weak
  • weak-minded
  • whacko
  • whacky
  • wigged-out
  • wild
  • witless
  • worked up
  • wrath
  • wrathful
  • wrathfulness
  • wroth
  • wud
  • zany
  • zealous

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