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.

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Related Words

ablaze

  • afire
  • aflame
  • aglow
  • alight
  • angry
  • aroused
  • blazing
  • bright
  • brightened
  • brilliant
  • broiling
  • burned
  • burning
  • burnt
  • charred
  • combusting
  • conflagrant
  • enflamed
  • enthusiastic
  • fervent
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • flaring
  • flashing
  • flickering
  • floodlighted
  • floodlit
  • frenzied
  • fuming
  • furious
  • gleaming
  • glowing
  • heated
  • highlighted
  • hot
  • ignited
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • impassioned
  • incandescent
  • incensed
  • incinerated
  • inflamed
  • intense
  • kindled
  • light
  • lighted
  • lightsome
  • lit
  • live
  • luminous
  • moonlit
  • on fire
  • passionate
  • piping hot
  • radiant
  • raging
  • red-hot
  • refulgent
  • roasting
  • scalding
  • scorched
  • scorching
  • seared
  • searing
  • shiny
  • singed
  • sizzling
  • smoldering
  • smouldering
  • sparkling
  • spotlighted
  • spotlit
  • stimulated
  • sunlit
  • sunny
  • sunshiny
  • vehement

accentuated

  • accelerated
  • accent
  • accented
  • acute
  • advertised
  • aggravated
  • almighty
  • amplified
  • augmented
  • blistering
  • boosted
  • bore down on
  • bring attention to
  • broadened
  • brought out
  • call attention to
  • concentrated
  • consolidated
  • deep
  • deepened
  • draw attention to
  • dreadful
  • emphasize
  • emphasized
  • enforced
  • enhanced
  • enlarged
  • enlivened
  • exacerbated
  • excruciating
  • exhaustive
  • expanded
  • explosive
  • exquisite
  • extended
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • feature
  • featured
  • ferocious
  • fierce
  • focused
  • focussed
  • foregrounded
  • frightful
  • furious
  • ghastly
  • give prominence to
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hastened
  • heavy
  • heavy-duty
  • heightened
  • hellacious
  • highlight
  • highlighted
  • identified
  • illuminated
  • intense
  • intensified
  • intensive
  • italicized
  • keen
  • lengthened
  • made much of
  • magnified
  • maximized
  • overplayed
  • pinpointed
  • played up
  • plugged
  • point up
  • pressed
  • profound
  • promoted
  • publicized
  • punctuated
  • quickened
  • redoubled
  • reenforced
  • reinforced
  • restrengthened
  • rigorous
  • severe
  • sharpened
  • spotlight
  • spotlighted
  • spotlit
  • stepped up
  • strengthened
  • stress
  • stressed
  • supplemented
  • terrible
  • thorough
  • underline
  • underlined
  • underscore
  • underscored
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • violent

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

eagerly

  • actively
  • aggressively
  • animatedly
  • anticipatorily
  • ardently
  • assertively
  • avidly
  • breathlessly
  • briskly
  • cordially
  • cravingly
  • crisply
  • decidedly
  • determinedly
  • directly
  • dynamically
  • earnestly
  • emphatically
  • energetically
  • enthusiastically
  • excitedly
  • expectantly
  • explosively
  • exuberantly
  • fanatically
  • fast
  • fervently
  • fiercely
  • firmly
  • fixedly
  • forcefully
  • forcibly
  • full tilt
  • gamely
  • gladly
  • hammer and tongs
  • hard
  • heartily
  • hungrily
  • impatiently
  • intensively
  • intently
  • keenly
  • longingly
  • lustily
  • madly
  • manfully
  • mightily
  • muscularly
  • potently
  • powerfully
  • promptly
  • purposefully
  • rabidly
  • rapidly
  • readily
  • resolutely
  • rhapsodically
  • rigidly
  • robustly
  • roughshod
  • roundly
  • sharply
  • sincerely
  • sky-high
  • smartly
  • snappily
  • solidly
  • soundly
  • speedily
  • spiritedly
  • spunkily
  • squarely
  • steadfastly
  • steadily
  • stiffly
  • stoutly
  • strenuously
  • strongly
  • sturdily
  • surely
  • thirstily
  • vehemently
  • vigorously
  • violently
  • vivaciously
  • warmly
  • willingly
  • with enthusiasm
  • with gusto
  • zealously
  • zestfully

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

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