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What is "pestilent" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does pestilent mean in English? Meaning of pestilent definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "pestilent" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "pestilent": exceedingly harmful

Adjective

  • Meaning: exceedingly harmful
  • Synonyms: baneful deadly pernicious pestilent
  • Similar: noxious

    • Meaning of "pestilent": likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

    Adjective

  • Meaning: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  • Example: a pestilential malignancy in the air plaguey fevers
  • Synonyms: pestiferous pestilent pestilential plaguey
  • Similar: epidemic
  • Adjective: Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.(informal) Annoying.(archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.

    • Synonyms:

    baneful, contagious, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, harmful, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous, troublesome, vicious, pestilential, contaminating, tainting,

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    pestilent in English: pestilent
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