Virile

Adjective

 * 1) Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
 * 2)  Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

Antonyms

 * nonvirile

Thesaurus
broad-shouldered, decisive, driving, energetic, forceful, hairychested, he-mannish, macho, male, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, masculine, potent, robust, ultramasculine, viripotent

Etymology
From virilis.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Czech: mužský
 * Dutch: viriel, mannelijk
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Latin:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish: męski
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: viril, manlig
 * Turkish: ,

Derived terms

 * virility

Adjective
virile



Adjective

 * 1) virile

Synonyms

 * maschile

Antonyms

 * femminile

Etymology
From virilis

Derived terms

 * virilità
 * virilmente

Anagrams

 * rilevi, riveli

Adjective
virīle


 * 1) neuter of virilis

Adjective
virile