Contagious vs Pestilential - What's the difference?
contagious | pestilential |
As adjectives the difference between contagious and pestilential is that contagious is of a disease, easily transmitted to others while pestilential is producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.
contagious Adjective
( en adjective)
Of a disease, easily transmitted to others.
- The flu was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
Of a fashion, laughter, etc., easily passed on to others.
- Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.
Of a person, having a disease that can be transmitted to another person by touch.
- They were highly contagious , spreading bacteria to other people.
Synonyms
* (of a disease) catching, infectious
* infectious
Antonyms
* non-contagious
Derived terms
* contagiousness
* contagion
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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.}}
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