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pestilential

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Adjective

HYPHEN

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective pestilential has 1 sense

pestilential(s = adj.all) pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey - likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"; "plaguey fevers"

Derived form noun pestilence₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

pestilential, a. [Cf. F. pestilentiel.].

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. [1913 Webster]
"So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pestilential, adj.
1 of or relating to pestilence.
2 dangerous; troublesome; pestilent.

Derivative

pestilentially adv.

Etymology

ME f. med.L pestilentialis f. L pestilentia (as PESTILENT)

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ROGET THESAURUS

pestilential

Insalubrity

N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.

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