Advertisement
Advertisement
pestilential
[ pes-tl-en-shuhl ]
adjective
- producing or tending to produce pestilence.
- pertaining to or of the nature of pestilence, especially bubonic plague.
- pernicious; harmful.
- annoyingly troublesome.
pestilential
/ ˌɛɪˈɛʃə /
adjective
- dangerous or troublesome; harmful or annoying
- of, causing, or resembling pestilence
Derived Forms
- ˌپˈԳپ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- t·t· adverb
- t·t·Ա noun
- t·t·t adjective
- ԴDzp·پ·t adjective
- ܲp·پ·t adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pestilential1
Example Sentences
A garden pond can be either a pestilential mess or the beating heart of a landscape, depending on how well it is designed, engineered and maintained.
"Have you been in this pestilential city long?"
At one point, a big black fly disconcertingly lit on Mr. Pence’s white shock of hair, a pestilential symbol that proved the writers of our reality can be pretty heavy-handed with the metaphors.
The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times.
Faced with a pestilential presidency, the Democrats are ready to rally to around the Delaware Democrat.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse