pestilential

Adjective Satellite

• likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; - Jonathan Swift
  • "a pestilential malignancy in the air"

Adj

• Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
• Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)
• Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
• Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)
• Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
• Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
• Of or relating to pestilence or plague.
• During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)
• Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).
• Causing irritation or annoyance.

Examples

• "pestilential fever; pestilential sweating"

Synonyms

annoying, irritating, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey, troublesome, vexatious