virally
- adverb
- /ˈvaɪrəli/
- Texting
- It has been shown recently with this "Fake Steve Jobs" and "The Last Lollipop" that you can virally attract a huge audience in a very short time.
- spread virally
- virally on social media
It's spread almost entirely through word of mouth, virally across teachers, parents, people involved in education.
- It's spread almost entirely through word of mouth, virally across teachers, parents, people involved in education.
- I I would love to find ways in which an insistence on only believing, but that for which there is evidence could be spread virally.
Examples
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Its interface and framework allow a person to spread news virally as quickly as any social bookmarking service.
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Software will spread virally more than ever before, but it will be increasingly done in person and off the web.
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It's spread almost entirely through word of mouth, virally across teachers, parents, people involved in education.
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In the future, fans will fund new recordings, tell artists which songs they like, and share their enthusiasm virally with friends.
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EMI will work with MXP4 to deploy music and games to fans through artist fan pages, consistently some of the most popular pages on Facebook, which can then be shared virally across the site.
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Videos about the new dance challenge spread virally across social media, entertaining millions within days.
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One tweet can quickly make a message travel virally, reaching audiences far beyond its original context.
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Several educational campaigns have gone virally, encouraging positive behavior changes worldwide.
Synonyms
In a way that spreads widely through a place or among many people
In a way that quickly makes other people feel the same
In a way that spreads quickly to other people, like a laugh or a smile
In a way that spreads quickly and widely like a disease
In a way that makes people notice and want to copy it
In a way that happens often in many places or among many people
How Viral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Virally comes from viral, which itself comes from the Latin word virus meaning 'poison'; today we think of a virus as a tiny germ that spreads fast, so something shared virally moves quickly and reaches many people like a real virus does.