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ultraviolent

adjective

ultraviolent is an adjective meaning “Extremely violent; of utmost violence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-L-T-R-A-V-I-O-L-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ultraviolent mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Extremely violent; of utmost violence.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ultraviolent

  • ultra-violent

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ultraviolent?

Ultraviolent appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does ultraviolent come from?

From ultra- + violent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).