Meaning of PESTILENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'pestlunt
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- [adj] likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers"
- [adj] exceedingly harmful
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| | Synonyms: | | baneful, deadly, epidemic, harmful, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, plaguelike, plaguey |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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