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relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people: Smallpox is clearly the worst of the pestilential diseases. In the story, a pestilential fog envelops every population centre in the country.
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relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that...
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1. a. : causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly. b. : of or relating to pestilence. 2. : morally harmful : pernicious. 3. : giving rise to vexation or annoyance : irritating.
1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Pestilential is used to refer to things that cause disease or are caused by disease. [formal] ...people who were dependent for their water supply on this pestilential stream. ...a pestilential fever. 2. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Pestilential animals destroy crops or exist in such large numbers that they cause harm.
Pestilential definition: producing or tending to produce pestilence. . See examples of PESTILENTIAL used in a sentence.
relating to or causing very serious infectious disease that spreads quickly and kills large numbers of people: Smallpox is clearly the worst of the pestilential diseases. In the story, a pestilential fog envelops every population center in the country.
Infectious, plague-causing, and definitely disease-bearing: If it's likely to bring along pestilence, then it's pestilential. Today we know that dirty hands, unclean water, and bubonic plague-carrying rats can all be potentially pestilential. But back in the olden days, the culprit wasn't so clear.
pestilential. ( ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃəl) adj. 1. dangerous or troublesome; harmful or annoying. 2. (Pathology) of, causing, or resembling pestilence. ˌpestiˈlentially adv. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.
