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8-letter words (1 found)

VIRULENT,

7-letter words (3 found)

RIVULET,UNRIVET,VENTURI,

6-letter words (17 found)

ERUVIN,INVERT,LINTER,LUITEN,LUNIER,LUTEIN,RUNLET,RUTILE,TRIUNE,TUNIER,UNITER,UNLIVE,UNTILE,UNVEIL,VENTIL,VIRENT,VIRTUE,

5-letter words (44 found)

ELINT,ENLIT,ERVIL,INERT,INLET,INTEL,INTER,INURE,LENTI,LEVIN,LINER,LITER,LITRE,LIVEN,LIVER,LIVRE,LUNET,LURVE,LUTER,NITER,NITRE,RELIT,RIVEL,RIVEN,RIVET,RUTIN,TILER,TRINE,TUILE,TUNER,UNITE,UNLET,UNLIT,UNTIE,UNTIL,URENT,URINE,URITE,UTERI,UTILE,VERTU,VILER,VINER,VIRTU,

4-letter words (64 found)

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3-letter words (43 found)

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2-letter words (15 found)

EL,EN,ER,ET,IN,IT,LI,NE,NU,RE,TE,TI,UN,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 188 words from virulent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of virulent

virulent

Etymology

From Middle English virulent (“leaking or seeping pus, purulent; (of putrefaction) extremely severe (sense uncertain)”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin vīrulentus (“poisonous”), from vīrus (“poison; venom; slime, slimy liquid; stinking smell; nasty taste”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison; slime; fluidity”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’, forming adjectives).

Sense 4 (“of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis”) is derived from French virulent, which was first used in this sense by the French biologist François Jacob (1920–2013) and his co-authors in a 1953 article.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɪɹ(j)ʊl(ə)nt/, /-ɹ(j)ə-/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɪɹ(j)ələnt/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ru‧lent

Adjective

virulent (comparative more virulent, superlative most virulent)

  1. Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
    Antonyms: harmless, nonvirulent
  2. (figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent.
  3. (medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
    Antonyms: benign, nonvirulent
  4. (microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis. [from 1953]

Derived terms

Related terms

  • virulence
  • virulency (dated)
  • virus

Translations

See also

  • pathogenic

References

Further reading

  • virulence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • evil turn

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīrulentus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [bi.ɾuˈlen]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [vi.ɾuˈlent]

Adjective

virulent (feminine virulenta, masculine plural virulents, feminine plural virulentes)

  1. virulent

Derived terms

  • virulentament

Related terms

  • virulència

Further reading

  • “virulent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “virulent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “virulent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “virulent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

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Adjective

virulent (plural and definite singular attributive virulente)

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Further reading

  • “virulent” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin virulentus. The second sense is probably a semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.ʁy.lɑ̃/

Adjective

virulent (feminine virulente, masculine plural virulents, feminine plural virulentes)

  1. (medicine) virulent
  2. virulent (hostile)

Derived terms

  • virulemment

Related terms

  • virulence

Further reading

  • “virulent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virulentus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viʁuˈlɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ru‧lent

Adjective

virulent (strong nominative masculine singular virulenter, not comparable)

  1. (medicine) virulent

Declension

Further reading

  • “virulent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “virulent” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “virulent” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French virulent, from Latin virulentus.

Adjective

virulent m or n (feminine singular virulentă, masculine plural virulenți, feminine and neuter plural virulente)

  1. virulent

Declension


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