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1. (adj.) pestilent
producing or tending to produce infectious or contagious, often epidemic, disease; pestilential.
2. pestilent
destructive to life; deadly.
3. pestilent
injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
4. pestilent
troublesome or annoying.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L pestilent- (s. of pestilēns) unhealthy, noxious, alter. of pestilentus=pesti- (s. of pestis) plague, pest+-lentus -lent)
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1. (adj) baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
exceedingly harmful
2. (adj) pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) pestilent
pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous
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