ultraviolent

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Scrabble points
15
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20
Letters
12

Definition of ultraviolent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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.”
    “But today, as I absorb the blunt aesthetic blows of one ultraviolent film after another, all I can make of it is that Hollywood, for reasons of its own, is hopelessly enamored of homicide. The plot is barely there anymore.”
    “Of course, the game that was ruining workplace productivity and infrastructure wasn’t innocent Tetris or the nationalistic Wolfenstein 3D—it was a game in which an ultraviolent marine gleefully murdered demons on a satanic Mars.”

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Etymology

From ultra- + violent.

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