Synonyms for Endemic
ɛnˈdɛm ɪken·dem·ic

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1. endemicadjective

   Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.

   Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.

   Synonyms:
   native

   Antonyms:
   introduced, alien

2. endemicadjective

   (Especially of plants and animals.) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.

   The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.

   Synonyms:
   indigenous

3. endemicadjective

   Antonyms:
   systemic

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1. endemic, endemic diseasenoun

   a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location

   Synonyms:
   endemic, endemic disease

   Antonyms:
   pestiferous, pestilential, epizootic, ecdemic, cosmopolitan, widely distributed, epiphytotic, foreign, plaguey, pestilent, strange, epidemic, pandemic

2. endemicadjective

   a plant that is native to a certain limited area

   "it is an endemic found only this island"

   Synonyms:
   endemic disease

   Antonyms:
   pestilent, pestilential, strange, epiphytotic, ecdemic, pandemic, widely distributed, plaguey, foreign, epizootic, pestiferous, epidemic, cosmopolitan

3. endemic, endemicaladjective

   of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality

   "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

   Synonyms:
   autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemical, endemic, indigenous

   Antonyms:
   pestilent, strange, epidemic, widely distributed, cosmopolitan, plaguey, epizootic, epiphytotic, pandemic, pestiferous, ecdemic, pestilential, foreign

4. endemicadjective

   native to or confined to a certain region

   "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"

   Synonyms:
   autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemical, indigenous

   Antonyms:
   pestilential, pandemic, pestilent, widely distributed, epizootic, pestiferous, epiphytotic, ecdemic, foreign, cosmopolitan, strange, epidemic, plaguey

5. autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenousadjective

   originating where it is found

   "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

   Synonyms:
   endemical, autochthonous, autochthonic, autochthonal, endemic, indigenous

   Antonyms:
   foreign, widely distributed, pandemic, epizootic, ecdemic, epiphytotic, pestilential, plaguey, strange, pestiferous, epidemic, pestilent, cosmopolitan

Matched Categories

1. • Disease
   • Ecology

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. endemicadjective

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) of a particular district

2. endemicnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) endemical disease

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1. List of paraphrases for "endemic":

   rampant, endemicity, hiv-endemic, rife, widespread, pervasive

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1. Suzanne Trimel:

   Many of them could ask within their own workplace (in these countries) for non-discrimination policies, they could also reach out to local LGBT communities and activists, and try to seek greater diversity in their workforces on the ground … make it clear that they are not accepting of repressive policies or persecutions, which, as we know, are endemic throughout the ‘Global South.’.

2. Janja Garnbret:

   I think it will be really beneficial to climbing because climbing is still a young sport. It's super young, so it's definitely a huge playground for everyone, for sponsors, for some non-endemic sponsors that are still yet to come into our sport. That's definitely something huge.

3. Abhishek Rimal:

   There have been discussions among scientists around the world -- what will be the fate of Covid moving forward ? one possible scenario is that it will be an endemic disease moving forward... We are tilting toward Covid( being) part and parcel of our life.

4. Marcos Espinal:

   It's a mosquito that is endemic in the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the population of the Americas was not exposed to the virus, so there's no immunity to it.

5. Mike Pompeo:

   The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption.