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adjective
- 1. relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases: "you shouldn't be out on a pestilential night like this" 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.
Pestilential definition: producing or tending to produce pestilence. . See examples of PESTILENTIAL used in a sentence.
Infectious, plague-causing, and definitely disease-bearing: If it's likely to bring along pestilence, then it's pestilential.
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 center in the country.
Pestilential is used to refer to things that cause disease or are caused by disease. [ formal ] ...people who were dependent for their water supply on this pestilential stream.
Definition of pestilential adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
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.
