Virile

Definition: Virile

Virile

Adjective

1. Characterized by energy and vigor; "a virile and ever stronger free society"; "a new and virile leadership".

2. Characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports".

3. (of a male) able to copulate.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "virile" was first used: 1490. (references)

Etymology: Virile \Vi"rile\, adjective. [Latin expression virilis, from vir man; akin to Anglo-Saxon wer: compare to the French expression viril. See Werewolf, World, and compare to Decemvir, Virago, Virtue.]. (references)

Synonyms: Virile

Adolescence

Adjective: adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.

Man

Adjective: male, he-, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine.

Strength

Manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.

Crosswords: Virile

French (virile), Italian (manful, manliness, manly, masculine, virile).

Books

• Briefs: A Virile Display of Verse Witty and Gay (reference)

• From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (Middle Ages Series) (reference)

• Man at His Best: How to Be More Youthful, Virile, Healthy, and Handsome (reference)

• The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal (Soas Studies on South Asia) (reference)

• The Very Virile Viking (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Dreams With Pollutions When Virile (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Colonial Empire - Introducing Malaya and Borneo--The Dayaks, a picturesque and virile race, dwell in the interior of Sarawak. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "virile": virile member ♦ virile mind. Additional references.

Ending with "virile": super-virile.

Albanian

potent (potent), i fortë (able bodied, adamant, adamantine, brawny, cast iron, cogent, decuman, Doughty, durable, endurable, enduring, fast, fierce, firm, flinty, forceful, Hale, hard, Hardy, heavy duty, high pitched, intense, intensive, keen, lancinating, nervous, oaky, potent, powerful, red blooded, refractory, resistant, robust, rocky, rough, rugged, screamy, serviceable, sharp, smart, solid, sound, spanking, stable, staunch, steely, stentorian, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, tenable, tenacious, tough, two-fisted, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, well-built, well-set), burrëror (manful, manlike, manly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فحل (bull, male, potent), ‏فحولي, ‏رجولي (male, manly, masculine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

възмъжал, мъжки (bull, he, male, man, man-sized, masculine), мъжествен (male, manful, manly, masculine), полово зрял. (various references)

Czech

mužský (male, masculine). (various references)

Danish

maskulin hyperøstrogenisme (masculin virile hyperoestrogenism), klimakterium virile (climacterium virile, disease of modern life, male climacterium), direktørsyge (climacterium virile, disease of modern life, male climacterium). (various references)

Dutch

climacterium virile (climacterium virile, male climacterium). (various references)

Farsi 

مردانه (Male, Manly, Mannish, Masculine), دارای نیروی مردی , دارای رجولیت . (various references)

French

virile, viril. (various references)

German

männlich (male, manly, mannish, masculine, unfeminine, virilly). (various references)

Greek 

ανδρικόσ (manful, manly, mannish, masculine), ανδροπρεπήσ (manlike, manly), δυνατόσ (feasibly, forceful, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, possible, potent, powerful, practicable, smacking, splitting, strong, vigorous). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ברי (male, manlike, manly, masculine), בעל כח �'ברא (potent). (various references)

Hungarian

férfias (ballsy, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, masculine). (various references)

Indonesian

agam (hefty, manly, sturdy). (various references)

Italian

virile (manful, manliness, manly, masculine). (various references)

Manx

firryn (he, mannish, masculine), feroil (manful, manly, mannish). (various references)

Pig Latin

irilevay.(various references)

Portuguese

viril (high-hearted, male, manful, manlike, manly, masculine, red-blooded), vigoroso (active, alive, bold, bouncing, energetic, flush, hale, hard, healthful, healthy, hefty, lively, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppy, pithy, racy, red-blooded, robust, sinewy, smart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, venturous, vigorous, vital, vivid, wakeless, youthful, zippy), varonil (malaria, manful, manlike, manly, masculine), macho (buck, cock-a-doodle-doo, flute, he, macho, malaria, masculine, mate, mule, tenon), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, pithy, potent, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strenuous, strong, trenchant, two-fisted, vibrant, vigorous). (various references)

Romanian

viril (manful, manly, masculine), masculin (male, masculine), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant), bãrbãtesc (brave, male, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, man's, masculine, resolute). (various references)

Russian 

возмужалый (grown up), мужской (male, manlike, masculine, mens), мужественный (high-hearted, manful, manly, masculine, spunky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

virilan, polno sposoban, muški (male, manful, manfully, manly, mannish, masculine). (various references)

Spanish

viril (full-blooded, male, manful, manly, red blooded). (various references)

Swedish

manlig (male, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, masculine). (various references)

Turkish

kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, hearty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virulent), güçlü (bouncing, brawny, energetic, forceful, full-blooded, heroic, high pressure, iron, keen, mighty, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, prepotent, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spirited, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, vigorous, voluminous), erkeksi (mannish, mannishly, masculine, tomboyish), erkekçe (manfully, manlike, manly, mannish), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, lively, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, warm blooded, zippy). (various references)

Ukrainian

чоловічий (male, manlike, masculine), змужнілий (puberal, ripe). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rắn rỏi; đáng bậc l� m trai, hùng dững, cương cường. (various references)

masculi, masculo, masculorum, masculos, masculum, masculus, maseas, virilem, virili, virilia, virilis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "virile": virilely. (additional references)

Words ending with "virile": invirile, supervirile, ultravirile. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Virile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airile, Fiorile, irale, irile, kirili, varice, variola, Vasilev, verial, verie, veril, verile, verle, vermile, Vieilles, vigile, vigili, virel, viri, viride, viril, virily, virl, virle, virol, virola, virul, virvle, vitrine, vivile, vril. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: livier.

-1 letter: ervil, liver, livre, viler.

-2 letters: evil, lier, lire, liri, live, riel, rile, rive, veil, vier, vile, virl.

-3 letters: ire, lei, lev, lie, rei, rev, vie.

-4 letters: el, er, li, re.

+1 letter: liviers, rilievi, rilievo, virelai.

+2 letters: invirile, livelier, liveried, liveries, liverish, reliving, reviling, rilievos, verticil, vilifier, virelais, virilely.

+3 letters: civilizer, devilries, driveline, driveling, inveigler, larvicide, leviratic, privilege, relieving, rivalries, servility, silvering, slivering, veridical, vermilion, verticils, vibratile, vilifiers, vitrioled, vizierial.

+4 letters: biliverdin, chivalries, civilizers, clavierist, deliveries, delivering, derisively, deviltries, drivelines, drivelling, invariable, inveiglers, invertible, irrelative, larvicides, lentivirus, overliving, prevailing, privileged, privileges, reavailing, relativism, relativist, relativity, relativize, revitalise, revitalize, revivalism, revivalist, rivetingly, shriveling, silverfish, silverside, trivialise, trivialize, velarizing, ventriculi, verifiable, vermicelli, vermilions, vermillion, virilities, virologies, visualizer, vitriolled.