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- [pes-tl-en-shuh l]
- /ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəl/
- /pestɪˈlenʃəl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [pes-tl-en-shuh l]
- /ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəl/
Definitions of pestilential word
- adjective pestilential producing or tending to produce pestilence. 1
- adjective pestilential pertaining to or of the nature of pestilence, especially bubonic plague. 1
- adjective pestilential pernicious; harmful. 1
- adjective pestilential annoyingly troublesome. 1
- adjective pestilential harmful, dangerous 1
- adjective pestilential spreading disease 1
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Origin of pestilential
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Medieval Latin word pestilentiālis. See pestilent, -ial
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Parts of speech for Pestilential
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pestilential popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 63% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pestilential
adj pestilential
- baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
adjective pestilential
- annihilative — Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- epizootic — Of, relating to, or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- extirpative — Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
- infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
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