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Pestilential vs Plagueful - What's the difference?

pestilential | plagueful |

As adjectives the difference between pestilential and plagueful

is that pestilential is producing pestilence or plague; pestilent while plagueful is abounding with plagues; pestilential.

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.}} ----

    plagueful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Abounding with plagues; pestilential.
    • (Webster 1913)