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pestilent

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of pestilent

1 capable of being passed by physical contact from one person to another
  • Proper hand washing will help prevent the spread of most pestilent diseases.
Synonyms of pestilent

catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable
Words Related to pestilent

infectious, infective
Near Antonyms of pestilent

noninfectious
Antonyms of pestilent

noncommunicable
2 causing annoyance
  • pestilent reporters hounding him night and day
Synonyms of pestilent

abrasive, aggravating, annoying, bothersome, chafing, disturbing, exasperating, frustrating, galling, irksome, irritating, maddening, nettlesome, nettling, peeving, pesky, pestiferous, pestilential, pesty, rankling, riling, vexatious, vexing
Words Related to pestilent

burdensome, discomforting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing, importunate, importune, inconveniencing

angering, enraging, infuriating

brattish, bratty, mischievous, offensive, troublesome, upsetting

distractive, painful, stressful, tiresome, troubling, trying, worrisome

biting, grating, jangling, jarring, spiny, thorny
Near Antonyms of pestilent

delightful, pleasing
3 likely to cause or capable of causing death
  • pestilent diseases such as bubonic plague and smallpox
Synonyms of pestilent

baleful, deadly, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, terminal, vital
Words Related to pestilent

baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculent

infectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulent

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsound

bloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine
Near Antonyms of pestilent

beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutary

alleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonic

advantageous, beneficial, useful

nonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe
Antonyms of pestilent

healthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, wholesome

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