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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. exceedingly harmful;
[syn: baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent]
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease;
- Example: "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
- Example: "plaguey fevers"
[syn: pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pestilent \Pes"ti*lent\, a. [L. pestilens, -entis, fr. pestis pest: cf. F. pestilent.] Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. "Corrupt and pestilent." --Milton. "What a pestilent knave is this same!" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
