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pestilential

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Main Entry: pestilential
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: virulent

Synonyms:

baneful, deadly, destructive, fatal, harmful, infective, injurious, malign, malignant, mephitic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poison, septic, toxic, toxicant, unhealthy, unwholesome, venomous
Main Entry: baneful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ruinous, injurious

Synonyms:

baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked
Notes: something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful

Antonyms:

advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky
Main Entry: catching
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: contagious (disease)

Synonyms:

communicable, dangerous, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, infectious, infective, miasmatic, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilential, taking, transferable, transmittable

Antonyms:

uncontagious
Main Entry: contagious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: communicable

Synonyms:

catching, deadly, endemic, epidemic, epizootic, impartible, infectious, inoculable, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, spreading, taking, transmissible, transmittable

Antonyms:

noncommunicable
Main Entry: cursed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: detestable, hateful

Synonyms:

abominable, accursed, atrocious, damnable, devilish, disgusting, execrable, fiendish, heinous, infamous, infernal, loathsome, odious, pernicious, pestilential, vile

Antonyms:

great, kind, nice, sweet
Main Entry: deadly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: causing end of life

Synonyms:

baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent

Antonyms:

animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome
Main Entry: deathly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fatal

Synonyms:

deadly, extreme, intense, lethal, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, terrible

Antonyms:

benign, harmless, healthful, healthy, life-giving, strengthening
Main Entry: destructive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, devastating

Synonyms:

annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful

Antonyms:

aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive
Main Entry: fatal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deadly, lethal

Synonyms:

baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, ill-starred, incurable, inevitable, killing, malefic, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent

Antonyms:

healthful, life-giving, nourishing, vital, wholesome
Main Entry: harmful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, hurtful

Synonyms:

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, undermining, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent
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