VIRILE meaning: Exhibiting qualities traditionally considered masculine

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word virile:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

virile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
virile: Merriam-Webster
virile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
virile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
virile: Collins English Dictionary
virile: Vocabulary.com
Virile, virile: Wordnik
virile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
virile: Wiktionary
virile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
virile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
virile: Infoplease Dictionary
virile: Dictionary.com
virile: Online Etymology Dictionary
virile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Virile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Virile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
virile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
virile: Rhymezone
virile, virile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
virile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
virile: FreeDictionary.org
virile: Mnemonic Dictionary
virile: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

virile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

virile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

virile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
virile: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

virile: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
▸ adjective:  (physiology, of a male) Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

Similar:

masculine, manlike, manly, male, manful, potent, strong, supermasculine, hypermanly, macho, more...

Opposite:

effete, effeminate, impotent

Types:

masculine, potent, strong, powerful, mighty, valiant, brave, heroic, more...

Phrases:

virile member, membrum virile, very virile, opposite of virile, strong and virile, more...

Adjectives:

single, own, same, more, fresh, usual, quasi, large, least, exalted

Colors:

charcoal, forest green, burgundy, maroon, olive, more...