pestilent

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

adjective

1. exceedingly harmful
• Syn:
baneful, deadly, pernicious
• Similar to:
noxious
• Derivationally related forms:
pestilence, perniciousness (for: pernicious), deadliness (for: deadly)
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
- plaguey fevers
• Syn:
pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey
• Similar to:
epidemic
• Derivationally related forms:
plague (for: plaguey), pestilence (for: pestilential), pestilence

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey, baneful, deadly, pernicious