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What (who) is virile - definition

RANGE OF MASCULINE CHARACTERISTICS VIEWED POSITIVELY

Virile; Verile; MacDaddy

virile

1.

If you describe a man as virile, you mean that he has the qualities that a man is traditionally expected to have, such as strength and sexual power.

He wanted his sons to become strong, virile, and athletic like himself.

ADJ

• virility

Children are also considered proof of a man's virility.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

Something that is described as virile is considered to be very strong and forceful. (LITERARY)

...Prokofiev's most virile, aggressive music.

ADJ

Virile

·adj Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting;

- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.

virile

a.

1.

Of a man.

2.

Manly, masculine, vigorous.

Wikipedia

Virility

Virility (from the Latin virilitas, manhood or virility, derived from Latin vir, man) refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. Virile means "marked by strength or force". Virility is commonly associated with vigour, health, sturdiness, and constitution, especially in the fathering of children. In this last sense, virility is to men as fertility is to women. Virile has become obsolete in referring to a "nubile" young woman, or "a maid that is Marriageable or ripe for a Husband, or Virill".

Historically, masculine attributes such as beard growth have been seen as signs of virility and leadership (for example in ancient Egypt and Greece).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virility

Examples of use of virile

1. He‘s also the toughest and most virile leading man since Russell Crowe‘s Maximus in Gladiator.

2. Did he actually sleep with far fewer than 30 but wanted to appear virile?

3. Her trademarks were unusually vigorous baby Jesuses, virile Josephs and an occasionally Pre–Raphaelite Mary.

4. Yesterday he asked about the German retirement age which began, bizarrely: You are a youthful, energetic, virile kind of chap.

5. This excited a hubbub, for the word virile has never been said before during Work and Pensions Questions.