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Pestilent vs Pestilential - What's the difference?

pestilent | pestilential |

Pestilential is a related term of pestilent.



As adjectives the difference between pestilent and pestilential

is that pestilent is highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly while pestilential is producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.

pestilent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
  • (informal) Annoying.
  • (archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.
  • Synonyms

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    pestilential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1941 , author=Chapman Miske , title=The Thing in the Moonlight , passage=Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.}} ----