One can't discount a global disaster like a virulent plague.
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Virulent
//ˈvɪɹ(j)ʊl(ə)nt//
Synonyms for "virulent" (169 found)
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Strong matches (51)
Related words (84)
infectiveinjuriousintemperateintenseinternecinekeenkillinglethalmaleficmalevolentmaliciousmalignmalignantmephiticmiasmalmiasmaticmiasmicmischievousmordaciousmordant
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Adjective(4 words)
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4 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
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11 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
47 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- болестотворен adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- враждебен adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- злобен adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- силно отровен adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
Catalan
1 entries- virulent adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Czech
3 entries- nakažlivý adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- nepřátelský adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- virulentní adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Esperanto
1 entries- virulenta adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Finnish
4 entries- katkera adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- tappava adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- tarttuva adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- vahingollinen adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
French
2 entries- virulent adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- virulent adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Georgian
3 entries- გადამდები adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- სასიკვდილო adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- სენიანი adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
German
2 entries- extrem ansteckend adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- virulent adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Hungarian
1 entries- virulens adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Macedonian
1 entries- заразен adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- jehrewî adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- giftig adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
- giftig adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- ondskapsfull adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- virulent adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
Polish
4 entries- jadowity adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
- zjadliwy adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- złośliwy adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- złośliwy adj (of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis)
Portuguese
3 entries- virulento adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
- virulento adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- virulento adj (of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis)
Romanian
2 entries- virulent adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- virulent adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Russian
1 entries- заразный adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- virulèntno adj (extremely venomous or poisonous)
- virulèntno adj (extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious)
- virulèntno adj (malignant, able to cause damage to the host)
- virulèntno adj (of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Ebola is one of the most virulent viruses known to man.
Source: tatoeba (8558454)
There are seven coronaviruses that can affect people. The common cold is one, as are its more virulent cousins: SARS, severe acute respiratory virus, and MERS, Middle East respiratory virus.
Source: tatoeba (8599290)
Parisians marked dusk on the first day of their coronavirus lockdown this week by stepping out on their balconies and throwing open their windows to cheer and applaud the front-line fighting of doctors and nurses of the virulent viral enemy that has upended life around the world.
Source: tatoeba (8621786)
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