pestilent
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- exceedingly harmful
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; - Jonathan Swift
- "a pestilential malignancy in the air"
Adj
- Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
- Annoying.
- Harmful to morals or public order.
Origin / Etymology
Middle English, from Latin pestilens, from Latin pestis.
Synonyms
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey
Scrabble Score: 11
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Words With Friends Score: 14
pestilent is a valid Words With Friends word