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单词 pestilential
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Definition of pestilential in English:

pestilential

adjective ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃ(ə)lˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l
  • 1Relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases.

    pestilential fever
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If there is a powder-like whitish coating covering the tongue surface, it is caused by the internal accumulation of summer-humid heat and is usually seen at the onset of pestilential diseases.
    • He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps.
    • Who can wonder that pestilential disease should originate and spread in such situations?
    • During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
    • Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks.
    Synonyms
    plague-like, contagious, communicable, epidemic, pestilent, dangerous, injurious, harmful, destructive, virulent, pernicious
    toxic, venomous
    malign, fatal, deadly
    informal catching
    literary pestiferous
    1. 1.1 (of a plant or animal) very widespread and troublesome.
      a pestilential weed
      the tsetse flies that are so pestilential in tropical Africa
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their reputation was pestilential, and the greatest care was taken to leave them alone.
      • It has rid us of a pestilential politics based on religious hatred and elitist contempt for the poor.
    2. 1.2informal Annoying.
      what a pestilential man!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is a pestilential bureaucracy, which attempts to micro-manage higher and school education.
      • It must be realised that the developers who are trying to spoil our town rely on people thinking that they have already objected to their pestilential schemes and don't have to do so again. But this is not so.
      • Most times, apart from the pestilential traffic lights, there is hardly a vehicle to be seen, but it is still costing £200,000 as a temporary measure’.
      Synonyms
      annoying, irritating, infuriating, exasperating, maddening, troublesome, bothersome, tiresome, irksome, vexing, vexatious
      informal aggravating, pesky, infernal, pestiferous, plaguy, pestilent

Derivatives

  • pestilentially

  • adverb
    • They ended the day by marching to the almost pestilentially polluted Cuyahoga River.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet for all the growing body of evidence of its impact, soot remains a pestilentially difficult substance to study.

Rhymes

cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential
 
 

Definition of pestilential in US English:

pestilential

adjectiveˌpestəˈlen(t)SH(ə)lˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l
  • 1Relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases.

    you shouldn't be out on a pestilential night like this
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her mixture burned the pestilential corpses that threatened the defenders and her illuminations at night thwarted Vandal attacks.
    • During the hot weather it's a pestilential place, populated by heavy clouds of biting insects.
    • If there is a powder-like whitish coating covering the tongue surface, it is caused by the internal accumulation of summer-humid heat and is usually seen at the onset of pestilential diseases.
    • He found a population of about 150 Malay inhabitants and a tropical rainforest edged by pestilential swamps.
    • Who can wonder that pestilential disease should originate and spread in such situations?
    Synonyms
    plague-like, contagious, communicable, epidemic, pestilent, dangerous, injurious, harmful, destructive, virulent, pernicious
    1. 1.1 (of a plant or animal) very widespread and troublesome.
      a pestilential weed
      the tsetse flies that are so pestilential in tropical Africa
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their reputation was pestilential, and the greatest care was taken to leave them alone.
      • It has rid us of a pestilential politics based on religious hatred and elitist contempt for the poor.
    2. 1.2informal Annoying.
      what a pestilential man!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most times, apart from the pestilential traffic lights, there is hardly a vehicle to be seen, but it is still costing £200,000 as a temporary measure’.
      • It is a pestilential bureaucracy, which attempts to micro-manage higher and school education.
      • It must be realised that the developers who are trying to spoil our town rely on people thinking that they have already objected to their pestilential schemes and don't have to do so again. But this is not so.
      Synonyms
      annoying, irritating, infuriating, exasperating, maddening, troublesome, bothersome, tiresome, irksome, vexing, vexatious
 
 
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