Word Meanings - PESTILENTIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PESTILENTIAL)
- Contagious
- Catching
- epidemic
- infectious
- pestilential
- communicated
- transferred
- transmitted
- infections
- Noisome
- Hurtful
- harmful
- nocuous
- Pestiferous
- Insalubrious
- deleterious
- mephitic
- virulent
- mortiferous
- contagious
- catching
- lethal
- morbific
Related words: (words related to PESTILENTIAL)
- COMMUNICATIVENESS
The quality of being communicative. Norris. - HURTFUL
Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome; - TRANSMITTER
One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver. - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL
1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. Mephitic air , carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid, - CATCHWORK
A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain. - CATCHER
The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches. - CATCHWORD
The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, - VIRULENT
1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective. - CATCH TITLE
A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc. - LETHAL
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid. - TRANSMITTIBLE
Capable of being transmitted; transmissible. - INFECTIOUS
Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter - COMMUNICATIVE
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. - CATCHPENNY
Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n. - CATCHDRAIN
A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water. - COMMUNICATION
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of - HARMFUL
Full of harm; injurious; hurtful; mischievous. " Most harmful hazards." Strype. --Harm"ful*ly, adv. -- Harm"ful*ness, n. - CATCHFLY
A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly. - INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in - SCATCH
A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - BEAUCATCHER
A small flat curl worn on the temple by women. - CONY-CATCH
To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak. - SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
Imparting or communicating by its own powers. - WORD-CATCHER
One who cavils at words. - TORPEDO CATCHER
A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. - BIRDCATCHER
One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler. - SCATCHES
Stilts. - INCOMMUNICATING
Having no communion or intercourse with each other. Sir M. Hale.