English adjective: pestilent | |||
1. | pestilent exceedingly harmful | ||
Synonyms | baneful, deadly, pernicious | ||
Similar | noxious | ||
Antonyms | innocuous | ||
2. | pestilent likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | ||
Samples | A pestilential malignancy in the air. Plaguey fevers. | ||
Synonyms | pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey | ||
Similar | epidemic | ||
Antonyms | ecdemic, endemic, endemical | ||