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Pestilential vs Healthful - What's the difference?

pestilential | healthful |

As adjectives the difference between pestilential and healthful

is that pestilential is producing pestilence or plague; pestilent while healthful is beneficial to health of body or mind.

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.}} ----

    healthful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * healthfull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Beneficial to health of body or mind.

    • Synonyms

    * healthy * salubrious * salutary

    Derived terms

    * healthfully * healthfulness

    Related terms

    * heal * health * healthy