Difference between Deadly and Virulent

What is the difference between Deadly and Virulent?

Deadly as an adjective is lethal while Virulent as an adjective is of a disease or disease-causing agent, highly infectious, malignant, or deadly.

Deadly

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: lethal very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.) very boring excellent, awesome, cool

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Fatally, mortally. In a way which suggests death.

Example sentence: The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Virulent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a disease or disease-causing agent, highly infectious, malignant, or deadly.Hostile to the point of being venomous; intensely acrimonious.

We hope you now know whether to use Deadly or Virulent in your sentence.

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