vehement

Definitions


[ˈviːɪm(ə)nt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense
(e.g: her voice was low but vehement)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (describing pain or temperature, in the sense ‘intense, high in degree’): from French véhément or Latin vehement- ‘impetuous, violent’, perhaps from an unrecorded adjective meaning ‘deprived of mind’, influenced by vehere ‘carry’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries