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Virile vs Fertile - What's the difference?

virile | fertile |

As adjectives the difference between virile and fertile

is that virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor while fertile is capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

virile

English

Adjective

(en 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.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.

    • Antonyms

    * nonvirile

    Derived terms

    * virility ----

    fertile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
  • (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
  • (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
  • (of an imagination etc) productive or prolific

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * barren * infertile

    Related terms

    * fertilisation, fertilization * fertilise, fertilize * fertiliser, fertilizer * fertility, fertileness * subfertile

    External links

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