virile

Meaning

Adjective

• Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
• Possessing high sexual drive and capacity for sexual intercourse.
• Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

Related

Opposite words

• nonvirile
• muliebrile
• muliebral

Origin

• Middle French viril, from Latin virilis.