vehement

Borrowed from Middle French vehement (modern French véhément; compare Italian veemente, Portuguese veemente, Spanish vehemente); or from Latin vehemēns (“vehement; very eager; ardent, furious, impetuous; emphatic”), probably from vē- (“lacking, too little”) + mēns (“mind; intellect; judgment, reasoning”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈviː.ə.mənt/, /ˈvɪə̯.mənt/, /ˈviː.hə.mənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈviː.hə.mənt/, /ˈviː.ə.mənt/

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• Hyphenation: ve‧he‧ment

vehement (comparative more vehement, superlative most vehement)

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

   The man made a vehement display of contempt.

   • 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which is to Come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream wherein is Discovered, the Manner of His Setting Out, His Dangerous Journey; and Safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey, London: Printed for Nath[aniel] Ponder at the Peacock in the Poultrey near Cornhill, →OCLC, page 79:

     Yet the Fiends ſeemed to come nearer and nearer, but when they were come even almoſt at him, he cried out with a moſt vehement voice, I will walk in the ſtrength of the Lord God; ſo they gave back, and came no further.

   • 2006, Scott [Bechtel] Smith, The Ruins: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 236:

     Amy shook her head, vehement. "The vine didn't kill them. The Mayans did. They tried to flee and the Mayans shot them. The vine just claimed their bodies once they'd been shot. There's no thought involved in that. No—"

   • 2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”

• full-throated
• swith (obsolete or dialectal)

• vehemence
• vehemently

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vehement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vehement”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “vehement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin vehementem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [bə.əˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [və.əˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ve.eˈment]

vehement m or f (masculine and feminine plural vehements)

1. vehement

• vehementment

• vehemència

• “vehement”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Ca. 1700, from Latin vehemens, vehementis, in part through French véhément.

• IPA^(key): (careful) /ˌveːheˈmɛnt/, (usual) /ˌveːəˈmɛnt/

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vehement (strong nominative masculine singular vehementer, comparative vehementer, superlative am vehementesten)

1. vehement

   Synonyms: nachdrücklich, heftig, scharf, leidenschaftlich

• Vehemenz

• “vehement” in Duden online
• “vehement” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French véhément, from Latin vehemens.

vehement m or n (feminine singular vehementă, masculine plural vehemenți, feminine and neuter plural vehemente)

1. vehement