Pestilential
[,pesti'lenʃәl]
Definition
(a.) Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
(a.) Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Pestiferous, infectious, contagious, catching, malignant, poisonous.[2]. Mischievous, destructive, deleterious, noxious, ruinous, deadly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Noxious, ruinous, deadly, deleterious, mischievous,[See PESTIFEROUS]
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Examples
- In vain I shewed him, that when winter came, the cold would dissipate the pestilential air, and restore courage to the Greeks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But we will not die in heaps, like dogs poisoned in summer-time, by the pestilential air of that city--we dare not go against the Plague! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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