Virulent

What do we mean by virulent?

Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin. adjective

Capable of causing disease by aggressively interfering with the immune system of the host. Used of a pathogen. adjective

Extremely hostile or malicious. adjective

Full of virus; extremely poisonous or venomous.

Due to the action of a virus: as, a virulent inoculation.

Very bitter or spiteful; malignant: as, a virulent invective; a virulent libel.

Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. adjective

Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant. adjective

Highly infectious, malignant, or deadly. adjective

Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious. adjective

Harsh or corrosive in tone adjective

Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom adjective

Infectious; having the ability to cause disease adjective

(of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.

Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.

Words that are spelled similarly to virulent:
virulent, avirulent, violent, purulent, virulence, virement, virent, aurulent, vinolent, rorulent, virulency.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word virulent:
virulence, invective, strains, strain, antisemitism, bubonic, staphylococcus, plasmid, attenuated, phage, pathogen, influenza, pathogens, aureus, smallpox, rapture, bacterium, infect, pasteur, viruses, flu, epidemic, polio, plague, coli, virus, racism, vaccine, fungus, diarrhea, hatred, bacteria, parasite, racist, toxin, parasites, vaccination, vichy, infected, infection, resistant, antibiotics, bacterial, spreads, infectious, tuberculosis, hostility, malaria, pneumonia, disease, sentiment, poison, viral, elm, pamphlet, organism, fever, rhetoric, nationalism, deadly, pigs, immune, satire, ideology, temperate, diseases, mortality, hiv, propaganda, genome, fatal, transmitted, mice, opponent, wheat, outbreak, symptoms, criticism, mild, host, americas, cause, jews, openly, aids, genetic, nationalist, opposition, nazi, genes, spread, protein, isolated, causing, gene, humans, experiment, dna, critic, cells.

Adjectives that are often used to describe virulent:
most, least, more, less, acetous, non, malignant, single, highly, glossy, widespread, scandalous.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective virulent:
strains, form, strain, bacilli, organisms, attack, virus, bacteria, attacks, disease, type, forms, poison, infection, cultures, culture, organism, opposition, campaign, hatred, diseases, abuse, racism, semitism, pathogens, pneumococci, poisons, nationalism, infections, epidemic, streptococci, blood, criticism, viruses, germs, propaganda, phages, phage, fever, pathogen, nature, material, hostility, microorganisms, types, isolates, character, kind, species, outbreak, bacillus, enemies, staphylococci, critics, tuberculosis, antisemitism, invective, bubo, enemy, pallidum, epidemics, plague, microbes, critic, opponent, properties, races, cancer, phase, smallpox, isolate, reaction, prejudice, mutants, satire, opponents, anticommunism, agent, variety, pamphlets, agents, rhetoric, animosity, denunciation, variants, communism, bacteriophage, streptococcus, pus, parasites, outbreaks.

Words that sound like virulent:
virulent, violent, vigilant, virulence, variant, volent, vreeland, virent, vacillant, virulently, aurulent, very light, valent, violett, varlet, varment, vinland, volant, virion, vaillant, virement, vraiment, virions, verecund, fire island, violet, violin, maryland, violins, verily, varmint, variate, variants, varian, visitant, cherilyn, verulam, mariland, vierling, volente, violence, villain, villan, violate, vigilante, villains, vigilance, vehement, villainy, verdant, virile, villon, fairyland, villany, vivant, violine, varela, violon, virology, vineland, virally, viril, vicent, viren, virat, fairy land, viron, versant, voland, carolean, volland, violone, volund, vowel point, verselet, vigeland, virens.