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| Main Entry: |
virulence
 [vir-yuh-luhns, vir-uh-] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resentment |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, embitterment, exacerbation, exasperation, fog*, fury, gall, grudge, huff, hurt, ill feeling, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, malignity, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique*, rage, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, virulency, wrath |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | animosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme dislike, hatred |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, bitterness, displeasure, enmity, hate, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, rancor, resentment, virulence |
| Antonyms: | good will, love |
| Main Entry: | bitterness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agony |
| Synonyms: | acrimoniousness, anguish, asperity, distress, grievousness, harshness, hostility, mordancy, pain, painfulness, sarcasm, venom, virulence |
| Antonyms: | contentment, geniality, happiness, sweetness |
Example Sentences
- The three come from different viruses and carry different kinds of danger, depending on ease of transmission and virulence.
- Much of the crisis' virulence came from the fact that the financial system had stopped working.
- Physicists denote the virulence of dark energy by a number called w, the equation of state.
| Main Entry: | fatality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, loss; ability to cause such |
| Synonyms: | accident, casualty, deadliness, destructiveness, disaster, dying, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, mortality, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | hostility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | antagonism, meanness |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bellicosity, belligerence, bitterness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, ill will, inimicality, malevolence, malice, opposition, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, unfriendliness, venom, virulence, war, warpath |
| Antonyms: | agreeableness, friendliness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | rancor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness, hatefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness, resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | kindness, love, respect, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | venom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poison; hating |
| Synonyms: | acidity, acrimony, anger, bane, bitterness, contagion, gall, grudge, hate, hatred, ill will, infection, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, rancor, spite, spitefulness, spleen, taint, toxin, virulence, virus |
| Main Entry: | vitriol |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness |
| Synonyms: | acrimoniousness, contempt, disdain, hatefulness, hostility, malevolence, maliciousness, nastiness, sarcasm, venom, virulence |
| Main Entry: | embitterment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resentment |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, anger, animosity, bitterness, indignation, ire, malice, rancor, rancorousness, resentfulness, spite, virulence, virulency |
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