Virulent vs Malicious - What's the difference?
virulent | malicious |
(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 Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
spiteful and deliberately harmful
As adjectives the difference between virulent and malicious
is that virulent is highly infectious, malignant, or deadly while malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.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 ----malicious
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.