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Virile vs Slothful - What's the difference?

virile | slothful |

As adjectives the difference between virile and slothful

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 slothful is lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.

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 ----

    slothful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * slothfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lazy; inactive; sluggish; indolent; idle; tending to sloth.
  • * He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. - Proverbs. 18:9

    • Synonyms

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