Virile

Word VIRILE
Character 6
Hyphenation vi rile
Pronunciations /ˈvɪɹaɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Virile"

What do we mean by virile?

Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male, especially in having the ability to have sexual intercourse. adjective

Masculine in a robust way; manly. adjective

Energetic or forceful. adjective

Pertaining to a man as opposed to a woman; belonging to the male sex; hence, pertaining to procreation: as, the virile power.

Masculine; not feminine or puerile; hence, masterful; strong; forceful.

Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile. adjective

Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor. adjective

Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns. adjective

Characteristic of a man adjective

Characterized by energy and vigor adjective

(of a male) capable of copulation adjective

Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.

(of a male) Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.

(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Virile

The word "virile" in example sentences

They've been made to believe that it makes them, what they call virile, poor fools, and they're growing ill on it. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)

These happen all the time, whether we're aware of them or not, and the notion that something a bit more virile is at work behind these exchanges is always an interesting one. ❋ Jlundberg (2008)

In 1910 the Royal Canadian Academy sent an exhibition to England and I remember the disappointment expressed in the English papers in expecting to find something breezy and virile from a young country and finding only a tame acceptance of their own convictions. ❋ Unknown (1925)

It is rather the re-assertion of the elemental quality in virile mankind, which, first in the garden was impelled to subdue the earth, and later founded colonies and transplanted empires across the faces of the planet. ❋ Unknown (1907)

If you visit Benin and Nigeria, you’ll see that he is characterized as virile with horns and phallus. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

He was what he and his followers liked to call the virile or red-blooded type, responsive to the "Call of the Wild," ❋ Bliss Perry (1907)

What some reports call "virile" disagreements during the negotiations basically centered on British concerns that increased regulation and taxation of financial services might harm the City of London as Europe's finance capital. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's already been posted on a number of blogs and websites, and seems to have gone what they call "virile" in Web parlance. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Would the same caveat hold for the use of the word "virile" to describe the Socratic method? ❋ Dan Ernst (2009)

She discovered it in the "virile" attentions of Molineux's friend Barnet. ❋ Nathan Ward (2007)

He had had the satisfaction of hurling a rock to mar the "virile" face as it looked down defiantly at him from the billboard. ❋ James H. Richardson (N/A)

There was a fine kind of virile peasantry in the willing hands, white enough, but occasionally broken at the nails from eight hours of this box in and that box out in a children's shoe department. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

Nowadays all England is reading Bernhardi, and shuddering at Prussian glorification of war; but no one mentions Bishop Welldon of Calcutta, who advocated the Boer war as a means of keeping the nation "virile"; nor Archbishop Alexander, who said that it was God's way of making ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Nowadays all England is reading Bernhardi, and shuddering at Prussian glorification of war; but no one mentions Bishop Welldon of Calcutta, who advocated the Boer war as a means of keeping the nation "virile"; nor Archbishop Alexander, who said that it was God's way of making "noble natures". ❋ Unknown (1918)

"And do you honestly believe that the art of the future will be one bit more 'virile' than the art of the present day?" ❋ May Sinclair (1904)

Since King loved 'virile' about as much as he did 'spouse' or 'forsooth' the Form looked up hopefully. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

A little above us, among the olive-trees, two blue-clothed peasants, man and woman, were gathering the fruit -- from some such couple, no doubt, our friend in the bowler hat had sprung; more "virile" and adventurous than his brothers, he had not stayed in the home groves, but had gone forth to drink the waters of hustle and commerce, and come back -- what he was. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)

It may be added that we may find a curiously inconsistent proof of the excessive importance attached to sexual function by a society which systematically tries to depreciate sex, in the disgrace which is attributed to the lack of "virile" potency. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

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