VIRULENT meaning: Extremely severe or harmful in nature

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word virulent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)

virulent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

virulent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)

virulent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Virulent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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virulent: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
virulent: Medical dictionary
WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
Virulent: Drug Medical Dictionary
Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Virulent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
▸ adjective:  (medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
▸ adjective:  (microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.

Similar:

venomous, vitriolic, blistering, caustic, deadly, acrid, acerb, bitter, acerbic, acid, more...

Opposite:

benign, mild

Types:

mild, moderate, severe, lethal, fatal, more...

Phrases:

virulent bacteriophage, Virulent Newcastle disease, more...

Adjectives:

most, least, acetous, non, malignant, single, highly, glossy, widespread, scandalous

Colors:

green, neon green, lime, chartreuse, acid green, more...