Local English word record

pestilential

adjective · 1 sense

likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift

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Examples

  • a pestilential malignancy in the air
  • plaguey fevers

Word relationships

Synonyms

pestilent, pestiferous, plaguey

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