Pestilent

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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;
          "plaguey fevers" [syn: {pestilential}, {pestiferous}, {plaguey}]