All pestilential synonyms
pes·ti·len·tial
P p adj pestilential
- lethal — of, relating to, or causing death; deadly; fatal: a lethal weapon; a lethal dose.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- impartible — not partible; indivisible.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- lethiferous — lethal.
- miasmatic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- destructive — Something that is destructive causes or is capable of causing great damage, harm, or injury.
- malodorous — having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad: a malodorous swamp.
- catching — If an illness or a disease is catching, it is easily passed on or given to someone else.
- miasmic — noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.
- contagious — A disease that is contagious can be caught by touching people or things that are infected with it. Compare infectious.
- inoculable — capable of being inoculated.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infective — infectious.
- feller — Robert William Andrew ("Bob"; "Bullet Bob") 1918–2010, U.S. baseball player.
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- carcinogenic — A substance that is carcinogenic is likely to cause cancer.
- death-dealing — fatal; lethal
- malefic — productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful: a malefic spell.
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- baneful — destructive, poisonous, or fatal
- deathly — If you say that someone is deathly pale or deathly still, you are emphasizing that they are very pale or still, like a dead person.
- fatal — causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
adjective pestilential
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- eradicative — Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- mephitical — Alternative form of mephitic.
- infestive — Tending to infest; acting like an infection.
- extirpative — Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
- annihilative — Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.
- wreckful — causing wreckage.
- noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- mortal — subject to death; having a transitory life: all mortal creatures.
- noisome — offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
- wrackful — ruinous.
- epizootic — Of, relating to, or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.
- insalutary — Not salutary or wholesome; bad for health.