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adjective
- 1. relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases: "pestilential fever" Similar
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1. a. : causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly. b. : of or relating to pestilence. 2. : morally harmful : pernicious. 3. : giving rise to vexation or annoyance : irritating. pestilentially. ˌpe-stə-ˈlen (t)-sh (ə-)lē. adverb. Synonyms. abrasive. aggravating. annoying. bothersome. carking. chafing. disturbing. exasperating.
relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people: Smallpox is clearly the worst of the pestilential diseases. In the story, a pestilential fog envelops every population centre in the country.
Infectious, plague-causing, and definitely disease-bearing: If it's likely to bring along pestilence, then it's pestilential. Today we know that dirty hands, unclean water, and bubonic plague-carrying rats can all be potentially pestilential.
Pestilential definition: producing or tending to produce pestilence. . See examples of PESTILENTIAL used in a sentence.
1. producing or tending to produce pestilence. 2. pertaining to or of the nature of pestilence, esp. bubonic plague. 3. harmful or pernicious. 4. annoying or troublesome. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Thesaurus.
Definition of pestilential adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
pestilential in American English. (ˌpɛstəˈlɛnʃəl ) adjective. 1. of, causing, or likely to cause pestilence or infection. 2. like or constituting a pestilence; widespread and deadly. 3. pernicious; dangerous; harmful.
Pernicious; dangerous; harmful. Webster's New World. Synonyms: pestilent. plaguey. pestiferous. virulent. pernicious. noxious. malignant. deadly. baneful. Pestilential Sentence Examples. And so pestilential was their touch considered that it was a crime for them to walk the common road barefooted.
pestilential meaning, definition, what is pestilential: extremely unpleasant and annoying: Learn more.
1. : a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. especially : bubonic plague. 2. : something that is destructive or pernicious. I'll pour this pestilence into his ear William Shakespeare. Synonyms. pest. plague. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of pestilence in a Sentence.
