Word.ws English Dictionary

virile

/ˈvɪɹ.əl/

virile 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

virile (comparative more virile, superlative most virile)

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

virile meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

virile in Tamil

வீரியமிக்க, ஆண்மையான

virile in Urdu

چاق, مردانہ, مرئی, رجلی

virile in Telugu

virile
మదము madamu

virile in Malayalam

ലൈംഗികാസക്തനായ, പുരുഷത്വമുള്ള, ഉല്പാദനശക്തിയുള്ള
More languagesFewer languages
virile in Kannada
ಗಂಡುಸುತನದ, ಕಸುವುಳ್ಳ, ಪುಂಸ್ತ್ವದ, ಪುರುಷತನದ

Examples of virile in a sentence

  • Such a woman, according to Saint Jerome, is virile in her virtue, as good as a man.
  • As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.
  • We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible.

All 15 example sentences with virile

Antonyms of virile

Forms of virile

comparativemore virile
superlativemost virile

Origin of virile

From Middle French viril, from Latin virīlis, from vir (“man”, “male human”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

Words formed from virile

Phrases with virile

Words that rhyme with virile

Questions about virile

What does virile mean?
Virile means manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
What is virile in Tamil?
Virile in Tamil is வீரியமிக்க, ஆண்மையான. See Virile meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is virile?
Virile is an adjective.
How do you pronounce virile?
Virile is pronounced /ˈvɪɹ.əl/.

Words near virile in the dictionary

  1. viridly
  2. viridness
  3. viridofulvin
  4. virids
  5. virii
  6. virile
  7. virile member
  8. virile members
  9. virile organ
  10. virilely
  11. virileness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: virile (page history and authors); virile (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virile (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); మదము (Telugu) (page history and authors); virile (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); virile (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-virile.wav.

Cite this entry: “virile.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/virile. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.