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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"
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.
dangerous or troublesome; harmful or annoying. of, causing, or resembling pestilence. “Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Discover More.
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.
Definition of pestilential adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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 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.
pestilential. ( ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃəl) adj. 1. dangerous or troublesome; harmful or annoying. 2. (Pathology) of, causing, or resembling pestilence. ˌpestiˈlentially adv. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
pestilential meaning, definition, what is pestilential: extremely unpleasant and annoying: Learn more.
a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating; especially : bubonic plague… See the full definition
