pestilent
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
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