PESTILENT meaning: Harmful and annoyingly widespread or infectious

We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Pestilent:

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pestilent: Merriam-Webster
pestilent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pestilent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pestilent: Collins English Dictionary
pestilent: Vocabulary.com
Pestilent, pestilent: Wordnik
pestilent: Wiktionary
pestilent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pestilent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pestilent: Infoplease Dictionary
Pestilent, pestilent: Dictionary.com
Pestilent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
pestilent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
pestilent: Rhymezone
Pestilent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
pestilent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
pestilent: FreeDictionary.org
pestilent: Mnemonic Dictionary
pestilent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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pestilent: Legal dictionary

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pestilent: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pestilent)

▸ adjective:  Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Annoying.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.

Opposite:

healthy, salubrious, wholesome, beneficial

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