| ADJECTIVE | all | pestilential, pestilent, pestiferous, plaguey | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
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| Meaning | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. | |
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| Example | "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift | |
| Synonyms | pestilent, 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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