What are some alternative words for pestilent?
Synonyms for pestilent
ˈpɛs tl ənt
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term pestilent.
Princeton's WordNet
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent(adj)
exceedingly harmful
Synonyms:
pernicious, pestiferous, deathly, virulent, baneful, venomous, baleful, mortal, insidious, lethal, deadly, plaguey, subtle, pestilential, mortal(a)pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey(adj)
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
Synonyms:
pernicious, corruptive, teasing, nettlesome, vexing, baneful, galling, dirty, plaguy, bothersome, plaguey, pestiferous, vexatious, deadly, pesky, pestering, annoying, pestilential, perversive, irritating
Wiktionary
pestilent(adjective)
Synonyms:
pestiferous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pestilent(a)
Synonyms:
pestiferous
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #4328 | dirty | |
| #9200 | deadly | |
| #9416 | annoying | |
| #9840 | subtle | |
| #13724 | lethal | |
| #14146 | mortal | |
| #21074 | teasing | |
| #23970 | irritating | |
| #34818 | pesky | |
| #39559 | insidious | |
| #43797 | virulent | |
| #46948 | bothersome | |
| #48711 | pernicious | |
| #51420 | venomous | |
| #78530 | vexing | |
| #83422 | deathly | |
| #89995 | vexatious | |
| #101981 | galling | |
| #108040 | pestering | |
| #114245 | baleful | |
| #132519 | baneful | |
| #245384 | pestilent | |
| #264537 | pestilential | |
| #299977 | corruptive |
How to use pestilent in a sentence?
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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