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adjective
- 1. relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases: "pestilential fever" Similar
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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.
Pestilential means causing or tending to cause pestilence, or morally harmful, or irritating. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles of pestilential.
Pestilential means producing or tending to produce pestilence, or harmful or annoying. Learn the origin, derived forms, and usage of this adjective with examples from literature and media.
Pestilential means causing or related to disease, or harmful or annoying. Learn how to use this formal adjective in sentences with synonyms and related words.
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 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.
Pestilential means causing or related to disease, or harmful in a general sense. Learn how to use this formal adjective with synonyms, pronunciation, and sentences from Collins Dictionary.
