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• s  characterized by energy and vigor
  a virile and ever stronger free society
  a new and virile leadership
• s  characteristic of a man
• a  (of a male) capable of copulation

• In 1885, the year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga.
• Murillo was a great pictoral pioneer of the new, virile, Joseph, in a traditional father's role.
• Great old powers were falling, virile new ones were rising, and the huge, poor mass of Asia and Africa was stirring into self-awareness.

• male
• manful
• manlike
• manly
• potent

• impotent

News & Articles

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• Help for African rhino poaching survivors
  In Africa hundreds of rhinos are shot or immobilised by poachers every year to supply ground up horn for the Asian medicine market. It is reputed to make men virile and treat anything from stomach ache to cancer - all just a myth.
  June 21, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Truman Capote in San Francisco Chronicle
  Stewart used best-picture nominee "Capote," about gay author Truman Capote, to set up a "Brokeback Mountain" wisecrack, saying the film "showed America not all gay people are virile cowboys. Some are actually effete New York intellectuals. It's...
• Alan Arkin in New York Times
  It's the best rejection I ever got in my life - they thought I was too virile,said Mr. Arkin, 72, flexing his biceps and striking a muscleman pose during lunch at a Chinese restaurant here.
• Tori Spelling in Canada.com
  Spelling, 34, added: "I'm young and virile. I can handle it."