virulent
120 synonyms found
- acerb
- acerbate
- acerbic
- acid
- acidic
- acidulent
- acidulous
- acrid
- acrimonious
- acute
- antagonistic
- antipathetic
- astringent
- baleful
- baneful
- biting
- bitter
- burning
- catching
- caustic
- choleric
- clashing
- colliding
- communicable
- conflicting
- contagious
- corroding
- corrosive
- corrupting
- corruptive
- counterproductive
- damaging
- death-bringing
- deathful
- deathly
- deleterious
- despiteful
- detrimental
- disadvantageous
- disserviceable
- distressing
- double-edged
- drastic
- edged
- embittered
- envenomed
- escharotic
- exorbitant
- fatal
- feral
- full of hate
- furious
- harmful
- hateful
- hostile
- hurtful
- immoderate
- incisive
- infectious
- infective
- injurious
- intemperate
- internecine
- lethal
- malefic
- malevolent
- malign
- malignant
- mephitic
- miasmal
- miasmatic
- miasmic
- mordacious
- mordant
- nasty
- noisome
- ominous
- outrageous
- penetrating
- pernicious
- pestiferous
- pestilential
- piercing
- poison
- prejudicial
- quarrelsome
- rancorous
- rankled
- repugnant
- resenting
- sarcastic
- scatheful
- scathing
- septic
- set against
- severe
- sore
- spiteful
- splenetic
- splitting
- stewing
- stinging
- strident
- stringent
- tart
- tough
- toxicant
- toxiferous
- trenchant
- unconscionable
- unfriendly
- unhealthy
- unwholesome
- vehement
- venenate
- veneniferous
- venenous
- vicious
- violent
- vitriolic
Definition
(adj) :
of a disease or disease-causing agent, highly infectious, malignant, or deadly; Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious
"the politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president."