- virulent words
- nasty word, venomous utterance
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
virulent words
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virulent — *poisonous, venomous, toxic, mephitic, pestilent, pestilential, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmal Analogous words: *deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal: *pernicious, noxious, baneful, deleterious: malignant, malign (see MALICIOUS) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
virulent — [[t]vɪ̱rjʊlənt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Virulent feelings or actions are extremely bitter and hostile. [FORMAL] Now he faces virulent attacks from the Italian media... Friends spoke of a virulent personal campaign being waged against him.… … English dictionary
virulent — UK [ˈvɪrʊlənt] / US [ˈvɪrələnt] adjective 1) medical a virulent illness is very dangerous, and affects people very quickly an especially virulent form of malaria 2) mainly journalism virulent feelings or actions are extremely strong and angry… … English dictionary
virulent — Synonyms and related words: acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, antagonistic, antipathetic, astringent, baleful, baneful, belligerent, biting, bitter, brutal, burning, catching, caustic,… … Moby Thesaurus
Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… … Universalium
heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… … Universalium
poisonous — poisonous, venomous, virulent, toxic, mephitic, pestilent, pestilential, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmal are comparable when they mean having the properties or the effects of poison (see POISON) Basically poisonous implies that the thing so described … New Dictionary of Synonyms
ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… … Universalium
