| ADJECTIVE | all | pestilent, baneful, deadly, pernicious | exceedingly harmful |
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| all | pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
| Meaning | Exceedingly harmful. | |
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| Synonyms | baneful, deadly, pernicious | |
| Broader | noxious | injurious to physical or mental health |
| Spanish | funesto, letal, mortal, perniciosa, pernicioso | |
| Nouns | pestilence | a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of |
| Meaning | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. | |
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| Example | "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift | |
| Synonyms | pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey | |
| Broader | epidemic | (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease |
| Nouns | pestilence | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
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