Pestilent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tending to cause death; deadly.
  • adj. Likely to cause an epidemic disease.
  • adj. Infected or contaminated with a contagious disease.
  • adj. Morally, socially, or politically harmful; pernicious. See Synonyms at poisonous.
  • adj. Causing annoyance or disapproval.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
  • adj. annoying.
  • adj. harmful to morals or public order.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; pestilential; pestiferous.
  • Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; hurtful to health or morals.
  • Troublesome; mischievous; making mischief or disturbance: often used humorously: as, a pestilent fellow.
  • Excessively; intolerably. Compare pestilent, a., 3.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. exceedingly harmful
  • adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
    • Equivalent
    noxious    epidemic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pestilential    noxious    pernicious    mischievous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pestilential    pernicious    damnable    seditious    heretical   
     
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