Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pestilent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pestilent \Pes"ti*lent\, a. [L. pestilens, -entis, fr. pestis
pest: cf. F. pestilent.]
Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. ``Corrupt and
pestilent.'' --Milton. ``What a pestilent knave is this
same!'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pestilent
adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: {baneful}, {deadly}, {pernicious}]
2: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a
pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift;
"plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers" [syn: {pestilential},
{plaguelike}, {plaguey}]
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