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Definition of pestilential in English: pestilentialadjective ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃ(ə)lˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l 1Relating to or tending to cause infectious diseases. 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 (of a plant or animal) very widespread and troublesome.
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.
- 1.2informal Annoying.
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 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: pestilentialadjectiveˌpestəˈlen(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 (of a plant or animal) very widespread and troublesome.
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.
- 1.2informal Annoying.
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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