| Main Entry: | virile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | potent, powerful |
Synonyms: |
driving, energetic, forceful, generative, lusty, macho*, procreative, red-blooded, reproductive, robust, sound, strong, vibrant, vigorous, vital |
Antonyms: |
effeminate, impotent, unmanly |
| Main Entry: | fertile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ready to bear, produce |
Synonyms: |
abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, fruitful, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, lush, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, productive, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, rich, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding |
Antonyms: |
barren, fruitless, impotent, infertile, sterile, unproductive, useless |
| Main Entry: | forceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
Synonyms: |
ball of fire, bullish, cogent, coming on strong, commanding, compelling, constraining, convincing, dominant, dynamic, electric, elemental, energetic, forcible, gutsy, mighty, persuasive, pithy, potent, powerhouse, puissant, punch, punchy, steamroller, stringent, strong, take-charge, take-over, telling, titanic, vehement, vigorous, violent, virile, weighty |
| Notes: | forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force |
Antonyms: |
feeble, impotent, ineffective, meek, unforceful, weak |
| Main Entry: | full-blooded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | purebred; strong |
Synonyms: |
hardy, hearty, powerful, robust, sound, thoroughbred, unmixed, vigorous, virile, vital |
| Main Entry: | handsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
Synonyms: |
admirable, aristocratic, athletic, august, beautiful, becoming, clean-cut, comely, dapper, elegant, fair, fashionable, fine, good-looking, graceful, impressive, lovely, majestic, noble, personable, pulchritudinous, robust, sharp, smart, smooth, spruce, stately, strong, stylish, suave, virile, well-dressed, well-proportioned |
Antonyms: |
homely, ugly, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in good condition |
Synonyms: |
able-bodied, active, all right, athletic, blooming, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, chipper, firm, fit, flourishing, fresh, full of life, hale, hardy, healthful, hearty, husky, in fine feather, in fine fettle, in good shape, in the pink, lively, lusty, muscular, normal, physically fit, potent, restored, robust, rosy-cheeked, safe and sound, sound, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, trim, unimpaired, vigorous, virile, well, whole |
Antonyms: |
delicated, diseased, fragile, ill, indisposed, infirm, poor, sick, sickly, unhealthy, worn |
| Main Entry: | he-man |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | masculine |
Synonyms: |
macho*, male, manful, manly, mannish, muscular, potent, virile |
| Main Entry: | machismo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | masculinity |
Synonyms: |
macho*, male, manful, manliness, mannish, masculine, muscular, virile |
| Main Entry: | macho |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | masculine |
Synonyms: |
aggressive, cocky, courageous, manful, manly, potent, ultramasculine, virile |
| Main Entry: | male |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | masculine |
Synonyms: |
macho*, manful, manlike, manly, paternal, potent, virile |
Antonyms: |
female |