Virile vs Senile - What's the difference?
virile | senile |
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.
Of, or relating to old age.
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, title= (often, offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
As adjectives the difference between virile and senile
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 senile is senile.virile
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* nonvirileDerived terms
* virility ----senile
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