[ US /ˈvɪɹəɫ/ ]
[ UK /vˈɪɹa‍ɪl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of a male) capable of copulation
  2. characterized by energy and vigor
    a virile and ever stronger free society
    a new and virile leadership
  3. characteristic of a man
    manly sports
    a deep male voice
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How To Use virile In A Sentence

  • The notes: "raw, down and dirty patchouli, Gurjam balsam, and essence of Sampson Root sweetened with the heightened sexuality of beeswax, virile juniper, oakmoss, ambrette seed over honey and East African musk. End-of-Summer Party quick notes
  • In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical -- something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile -- something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household -- that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams! '' Babbitt
  • In my next what-d'you-call-it I'll see to it that I get named something really practical -- something that sounds swell and yet is good and virile -- something, in fact, like that grand old name so familiar to every household -- that bold and almost overpowering name, Willis Jimjams Ijams! '' Babbitt
  • He wanted his sons to become strong, virile, and athletic like himself.
  • He wanted his sons to become strong, virile, and athletic like himself.
  • I'd much rather be de-frosted in a hundred years time a reasonably virile man in his twenties, rather than a decrepit octogenarian who had already died once.
  • I understand how distracted a woman can be with a virile man waiting at home for her.
  • In 1910 the Royal Canadian Academy sent an exhibition to England and I remember the disappointment expressed in the English papers in expecting to find something breezy and virile from a young country and finding only a tame acceptance of their own convictions. Two Views of Canadian Art
  • The brief courtships I held in virile adolescence ended in either tragedy of my own doing or forced adieu; both similar to the other, really.
  • It opens with Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, the 1911 ballet with which Vaslav Nijinsky legendarily reinvented the image of the male dancer, leaping on stage in a pink-petalled costume – athletically virile and exquisitely perfumed. Men in Motion – review
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