pestilential

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
Causing irritation or annoyance.

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From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.

pestiferous pernicious annoying irritating pestilent troublesome vexatious

antipestilential pestilentially pestilentialness unpestilential

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