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ultraviolent

ultraviolent adjective: extremely violent; of utmost violence.

Adjective

ultraviolent (not comparable)

  1. Extremely violent; of utmost violence.
    • "The Crow," because of Lee and the crack filmmaking team behind him, succeeds in its bid to translate comic book style to bigscreen ambiance as a sort of ultraviolent "Batman." It's a heavyweight finale to a career of an actor whose potential was just beginning to surface.1994, UCLA Daily Bruin, Los Angeles, page 20
    • In contrast to the situation in both civil and malignant communities, in turbulent minor communities no individual type has gained the upper hand, so that there is no predominant individual type but instead an admixture of types. Thus ultraviolent people with their unmitigated violent phantom...1997, Lonnie H. Athens, Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 150

Forms of ultraviolent

alternative formultra-violent

Origin of ultraviolent

From ultra- + violent.

Questions about ultraviolent

What does ultraviolent mean?
Ultraviolent means extremely violent; of utmost violence.
What part of speech is ultraviolent?
Ultraviolent is an adjective.

Words near ultraviolent in the dictionary

  1. ultravicious
  2. ultravigilant
  3. ultravillain
  4. ultravillains
  5. ultraviolence
  6. ultraviolent
  7. ultraviolet
  8. ultraviolet A
  9. ultraviolet astronomy
  10. ultraviolet B
  11. ultraviolet C

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