pestilent
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
exceedingly harmful
Related & opposite
- perniciousness derivation
- deadliness derivation
- pestilence derivation
- noxious similar to
Sense 2 adjective
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
a pestilential malignancy in the air
Related & opposite
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | perniciousness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | deadliness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pestilence |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | noxious |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pest |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | epidemic |