Associations to the word «Pestilential»

Wiktionary

PESTILENTIAL, adjective. Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.

Dictionary definition

PESTILENTIAL, adjective. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers".

Wise words

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