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Virile

//ˈvɪɹ.əl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
  3. 3
    Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of a man wordnet
  2. 2
    (of a male) capable of copulation wordnet
  3. 3
    characterized by energy and vigor wordnet

Etymology

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

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