What does pestilential mean?
Pestilential means Of or relating to pestilence or plague..
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/ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃi.əl/ · adjective
Of or relating to pestilence or plague..
But as the Poisons of the deadliest kind Are to their own unhappy Coasts confin’d, […] So Presby’try and Pestilential Zeal Can only flourish in a Common-weal.
By proclaiming individuals or entire societies to be damned, by treating their convictions as pestilential heresies, church and state had deliberately loosed fanaticism and savagery on often helpless men.
1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 165, March 1899, Chapter 2, p. 480, […] a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.
There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs […] They’d none of ’em be missed!
“You are right that Authority must go. It is ridiculous—pestilential, not to be borne—that we should be ruled by an irresponsible dictator in all our essential economy!”
these ostensibly pestilential visits from Mumsey
Use pestilential when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pestilential means Of or relating to pestilence or plague..
Common synonyms include pernicious, annoying, irritating, pestiferous.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But as the Poisons of the deadliest kind Are to their own unhappy Coasts confin’d, […] So Presby’try and Pestilential Zeal Can only flourish in a Common-weal.
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