Virulent
['vɪrʊl(ə)nt;'vɪrjʊ-] or ['vɪrələnt]
Definition
(a.) Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.
(a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Poisonous, venomous.[2]. Malignant, acrimonious, bitter.
Typist: Tabitha
Definition
adj. full of poison: very active in injury: bitter in enmity: malignant.—ns. Vir′ulence Vir′ulency.—adv. Vir′ulently.
Edited by Lenore
Examples
- Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was consumption of the most virulent kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- For a whole fortnight we unceasingly watched beside the poor child, as his life declined under the ravages of a virulent typhus. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Lenore