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PESTILENTIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pestilential mean?
• PESTILENTIAL (adjective)
The adjective PESTILENTIAL has 1 sense:
1. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
Familiarity information: PESTILENTIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
Synonyms:
pestiferous; pestilent; pestilential; plaguey
Context example:
plaguey fevers
Similar:
epidemic ((especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously)
Derivation:
pestilence (any epidemic disease with a high death rate)
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