English

Alternative forms

• non-virile

Adjective

nonvirile ‎(not comparable)

1. Not virile.
   • 1984, Tony Hillerman, "The Spell of New Mexico"

     Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.

   • 1992, Edward Jayne, "Negative poetics‎"

     Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual […]

   • 2004, Jude Deveraux, "Remembrance‎"

     As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.

2. (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.
   • 1975, Maria Zagórska Brooks, "Polish Reference Grammar (page 317)"

     The nonvirile form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. […] Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.

Antonyms

• virile