| 单词 | pestilent |
| 释义 | pestilent (once / 984 pages) adj When something is pestilent, it's contagious and often deadly. At one time, polio was considered to be a pestilent disease in North America. Something harmful that spreads — whether it's an illness or violence or a really bad idea — can be described with the adjective pestilent. The rise of poverty in some places, or the spread of chicken pox among preschoolers, are both pestilent. The Latin origin is pestilentem, which comes from pestilis, "of the nature of a plague," with its root of pestis, "deadly contagious disease." WORD FAMILYpestilent: pestilence, pestilently+/pestilence: pestilences, pestilential/pestilential: pestilentially USAGE EXAMPLESMore beautiful than the sight of a spring field after three years of living in that pestilent cesspit of a city. Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind(2007) Imperial authorities proclaimed the leopards pestilent and awarded generously for their skins. National Geographic(Aug 04, 2016) “Now be gone with you, pestilent little beggars! Go find pockets to pick somewhere else!” Ransom Riggs, Hollow City(2014) 1adj likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease Syn pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey epidemic (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously 2adj exceedingly harmful Syn baneful, deadly, pernicious noxious injurious to physical or mental health |
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