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invirile

/ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/

invirile adjective: deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.

Adjective

invirile (comparative more invirile, superlative most invirile)

  1. Deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.
    • Ovid in Pontus, puling for his Rome / Of men invirile and disnatured dames / That poison sucked from the Attic bloom decayed, / Shrank with a shudder from the blue-eyed race / Whose force rough-handed should renew the world, […]1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...

invirile meaning in Bengali

invirile in Bengali

invirile, cowardly
মাদা mada

Forms of invirile

comparativemore invirile
superlativemost invirile

Origin of invirile

From in- + virile.

Questions about invirile

What does invirile mean?
Invirile means deficient in manhood; effeminate, unmanly.
What is invirile in Bengali?
Invirile in Bengali is মাদা (mada). See Invirile meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is invirile?
Invirile is an adjective.
How do you pronounce invirile?
Invirile is pronounced /ɪnˈvɪɹaɪl/.

Words near invirile in the dictionary

  1. inviolated
  2. inviolately
  3. inviolateness
  4. invious
  5. invirase
  6. invirile
  7. invirility
  8. inviron
  9. invironed
  10. invironing
  11. invirons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: invirile (page history and authors); মাদা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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