pestilent

  • 31pestilent — /ˈpɛstələnt / (say pestuhluhnt) adjective 1. infectious, as a disease; pestilential. 2. producing or tending to produce infectious disease. 3. destructive to life; deadly; poisonous. 4. injurious to peace, morals, etc. 5. troublesome or annoying …

  • 32pestilent — adj. 1 destructive to life, deadly. 2 harmful or morally destructive. 3 colloq. troublesome; annoying. Derivatives: pestilently adv. Etymology: L pestilens, pestilentus f. pestis plague …

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  • 34annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing — Ill natured Ill na tured, a. 1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition; surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed; of people; as, an ill natured person; an ill natured disagreeable old man. Opposite of {good… …

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  • 35pestilential — pestilent, pestilential *poisonous, venomous, virulent, toxic, mephitic, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmal Analogous words: *infectious, contagious, catching: noxious, *pernicious, baneful, deleterious …

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  • 36pestilential — pestilent / pestilential [adj] dangerous, harmful baneful, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous,… …

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  • 37pes´ti|lent|ly — pes|ti|lent «PEHS tuh luhnt», adjective. 1. often causing death: »Smallpox is a pestilent disease. 2. Figurative. very harmful to morals; destroying peace; noxious; pernicious: »a pestilent den of vice, the pestilent effects of war. 3.… …

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  • 38pes|ti|lent — «PEHS tuh luhnt», adjective. 1. often causing death: »Smallpox is a pestilent disease. 2. Figurative. very harmful to morals; destroying peace; noxious; pernicious: »a pestilent den of vice, the pestilent effects of war. 3. troublesome; annoy …

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  • 39poisonous — poisonous, venomous, virulent, toxic, mephitic, pestilent, pestilential, miasmic, miasmatic, miasmal are comparable when they mean having the properties or the effects of poison (see POISON) Basically poisonous implies that the thing so described …

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  • 40-lent — suffix forming adjectives (pestilent; violent) (cf. ULENT). Etymology: L lentus ful * * * a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, var. of ulent: pestilent. * * * suffix (forming adjectives) full of; characterized by pestilent | violent… …

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