epidemic

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease;
many people are infected at the same time (Freq. 5)
• Hypernyms:
outbreak, eruption, irruption
• Hyponyms:
pandemic

II - adjective

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease;
attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously (Freq. 5)
- an epidemic outbreak of influenza
• Ant:
endemic, ecdemic
• Similar to:
epiphytotic, epizootic, pandemic, pestilent, pestilential,
pestiferous, plaguey
• Topics:
medicine, medical specialty

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  endemic, endemical, ecdemic