Virulent vs Lethal - What's the difference?
virulent | lethal |
(chiefly, medicine, of a disease or disease-causing agent) Highly infectious, malignant or deadly.
Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Deadly; mortal; fatal.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
As adjectives the difference between virulent and lethal
is that virulent is highly infectious, malignant, or deadly while lethal is deadly; mortal; fatal.As a noun lethal is
one of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.virulent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent , and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
See also
* pathogenic ----lethal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}