Synonyms for pestilential
ˌpɛs tlˈɛn ʃəlpesti·len·tial

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1. pestilential

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

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1. pestilential

   Synonyms:
   noxious, ruinous, deadly, deleterious, mischievous

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1. pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plagueyadjective

   likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

   "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"

   Synonyms:
   pestilent, pernicious, corruptive, teasing, nettlesome, vexing, baneful, galling, dirty, plaguy, bothersome, plaguey, pestiferous, vexatious, deadly, pesky, pestering, annoying, perversive, irritating

   Antonyms:
   endemical, ecdemic, endemic

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1. pestilentialadjective

   Synonyms:
   pestiferous, infectious, contagious, catching, malignant, poisonous

2. pestilentialadjective

   Synonyms:
   mischievous, destructive, deleterious, noxious, ruinous, deadly

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1. pestilential

   Synonyms:
   Epidemic (adjective)
   

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