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 | ||