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   pestilential

   /ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃl/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases: "pestilential fever" Similar plague-likecontagiouscommunicableepidemicpestilentdangerousinjuriousharmfuldestructivevirulentpernicioustoxicvenomousmalignfataldeadlyinformal:catchingliterary:pestiferous
   • ▪ (of a plant or animal) very widespread and troublesome: "a pestilential weed"
   • ▪ annoying: "what a pestilential man!" Similar annoyingirritatinginfuriatingexasperatingmaddeningtroublesomebothersometiresomeirksomevexingvexatiousinformal:aggravatingpeskyinfernalpestiferousplaguypestilent

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   • 1. pestilentially adverb

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   What is a pestilent word?

   • 1. a. Causing or likely to cause epidemic disease: a pestilent swamp. b. Infectious or epidemic: a pestilent disease. c. Archaic Tending to cause death; deadly. 2. Morally or socially harmful; pernicious: pestilent writings. 3. Causing annoyance or disapproval: a pestilent fool.

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   What is a pestilential disorder?

   • He died of a pestilential disorder, which, in the course of two days, had carried off nearly 400 men in his camp. Like pestilential vapor, the infamy of universal reprobation hung over him. Pestilential definition: producing or tending to produce pestilence. . See examples of PESTILENTIAL used in a sentence.

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   Pestilential means relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people, or full of insects or small animals that are dirty or cause disease. Learn more about this formal adjective and its usage with synonyms and translations.

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   Pestilential definition: producing or tending to produce pestilence. . See examples of PESTILENTIAL used in a sentence.

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   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.

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   Pestilential means relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people. It can also mean full of insects or small animals that are dirty or cause disease, or extremely annoying.

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   Pestilential means causing or related to disease, or harmful or annoying. Learn how to use this formal adjective with synonyms, pronunciation, and sentences from Collins English Dictionary.

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   Pestilential means harmful, annoying, or resembling pestilence, a deadly or infectious disease. Find the origin, usage, and examples of this adjective, as well as related words and translations.