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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act V, p. 63, What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. [...] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.
- 1941, J. Chapman Miske, “The Thing in the Moonlight” in H. P. Lovecraft, The Tomb and Other Tales, New York: Ballantine, 1970, p. 187, Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pestiferous
Antonyms: none provided
Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- pestilential fever; pestilential sweating
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
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Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pernicious
Antonyms: none provided
Causing irritation or annoyance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 165, March 1899, Chapter 2, p. 480, [...] a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: annoying, irritating, pestiferous, pestilent, troublesome, vexatious
Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 7
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a pestilential malignancy in the air
- plaguey fevers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pestilent, pestiferous, plaguey
Antonyms: none provided
From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.
