Pestilent

Definitions: Pestilent

Pestilent

Adjective

1. Exceedingly harmful.

2. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers".

Date "pestilent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Pestilent \Pes"ti*lent\, adjective. [Latin expression pestilens, -entis, from pestis pest: compare to the French expression pestilent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Pestilent

Synonyms: baneful (adj), deadly (adj), pernicious (adj), pestilential (adj), plaguelike (adj), plaguey (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insalubrity	Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pestilent

English words defined with "pestilent": A murrain on you ♦ Pestilently, Pestilentness ♦ Viper's bugloss. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pestilent": Carthagena ♦ House ♦ lexicographer ♦ type ♦ -type. (references)

Etymologies containing "pestilent": Pestilence. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pestilent" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (pestilent).

Domain	Title
Books	"That pestilent cosmetic, rhetoric" (reference) A Foul and Pestilent Congregation: Images of 'Freaks' in Baroque Art (reference) (more book examples)

Music	The Pestilent Plague (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Pestilent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pestilent" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	3	202,518

Expression using "pestilent": annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "pestilent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vdekjeprurës (baneful, basilisk, deadly, fatal, feral, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous, pestilential, vital), shqetësues (anxious, disorderly, disquieting, disturbing, hairy, perturbing, pesky, plaguy, vexatious, worrisome), shkatërrimtar (calamitous, crushing, destructive, disastrous, fatal, internecine, killing, pestilential, shattering, slaughterous, suicidal, vandalistic), molepsës (infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilential, transmissible), i rrezikshëm (breakneck, critical, dangerous, endangering, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, high risk, malign, nasty, parlous, perilous, risky, risque, touch and go, unchancy, unsafe), bezdisës (pestiferous, pestilential, plaguy, vexing). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهلك (annihilating, baleful, baneful, deadly, deathly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal, murderous, pernicious, ruinous, withering), ‏سام (baneful, empyrean, poisonous, sublime, toxic, venomous, virulent), ‏خطر على الأمن و الأخلاق. (various references)

Bulgarian		смъртоносен (deadly, fatal, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, murderous), гибелен (disastrous, fatal, fateful, homicidal, pernicious, pestilential, suicidal, swart), отегчителен (boring, moldy, pesky, prolix, prosy, provoking, tiresome, weary, wearying), невъзможен (bloody minded, impossible, infamous, miserable, monstrous, perishing, terrible, unchristian, unfeasible, unthinkable, villainous, wretched), заразен (communicable, contagious, contaminated, infected, infectious, pestiferous, pestilential), зловреден (malefic, malign, malignant, mischievous, pestilential, swart, unwholesome), пагубен (baleful, baneful, calamitous, damnific, detrimental, evil, fatal, fateful, homicidal, malign, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, ruinous, subversive), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestiferous, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Czech		morový (pestiferous, pestilential, plaguy). (various references)

French		pestilentiel (pestiferous, pestilential), sacré (pestilential), nuisible (pestilential). (various references)

German		pestartig (fetid, miasmic, pestilential). (various references)

Greek		λοιμώδησ (pestilential), δηλητηριώδησ (noxious, poisonous, toxic, venomous, virulent). (various references)

Hungarian		kárhozatos (damnable, damning), dögletes (pestiferous, poisonous), bosszantó (aggravating, annoying, disagreeable, disappointing, exasperating, galling, importunate, invidious, irking, irksome, nettlesome, pesky, plaguesome, plaguy, provocative, trying, vexatious, vexing), átkos, ártalmas (adverse, deleterious, destructive, deteriorative, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malign, miasmal, miasmatic, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, poisonous). (various references)

Italian		pestilenziale, pestifero (disgusting, pestiferous, stinking). (various references)

Manx		paittoil (pestiferous). (various references)

Pig Latin		estilentpay

Portuguese		pestilento (fumy, pestiferous, pestilential), venenoso (baneful, poisonous, snaky, venomous, viperous), nocivo (adverse, bad, foul, harmful, harmless, hurtful, injurious, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial, wrongful), mortal (cutthroat, dead, deadly, deathlike, deathly, earth-born, fatal, fleshly, killing, lethargic, mortal, mortality, pernickety, swashing), mortífero (internee, murderous, slaughterous), fatal (deadly, earth-born, fatal, fateful, inevitable, knockout, pernicious), epidemia (contagion, epidemic, plague), contagioso (absorbing, catching, communicable, contagious, infelicitous, pestilential, stunner, taking). (various references)

Romanian		pestilent, pestilenţial (fetid, miasmal, miasmic, pestilential), ucigãtor (baneful, cut throat, dreadful, homicidal, killing, murderous, murderously, terrible), respingãtor (abhorrent, awful, awfully, disagreeable, dreadful, dreadfully, forbidding, foul, fulsome, hideous, infamous, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odiousness, offensive, rebarbative, repellent, repulsive, repulsively, scurvy, unprepossessing, verminous), nesuferit (beastly, horrid, unbearable), fatal (deadly, deathly, fatal, fateful, feral, inevitably, pernicious, pestilential, vital, weird), dãunãtor (bad, baleful, evil, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malign, mischievous, noisome, pest, pestilential, prejudicially, sinister), contagios (catching, contagious, foul, infectious, infective, pestilential). (various references)

Russian		заразный (catching, catchy, communicable, contagious, infectious, pestiferous, zymotic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zarazan (catching, communicable, contagious, infectious, miasmatic, pestiferous, pestilential, plaguy, virulent, zymotic), zaražen (contaminated, infected), ubistven (lethiferous, perishing, pestiferous, pestilential), kužan (plaguesome, sickening). (various references)

Spanish		pestífero (pestiferous, pestilential), pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestiferous, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), pernicioso (damnific, maleficent, malignant, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential). (various references)

Swedish		pestartad, irriterande (annoying, excruciating, irksome, irritant, irritants, irritating, irritative, maddening, nettlesome, pestilential, plaguey, plaguy, sickening, vexatious, worrisome), fördärvlig (baneful, deleterious, destructive, evil, injurious, pernicious), dödsbringande (deadly, lethiferous). (various references)

Turkish		zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), baş belâsı (a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the side, annoyance, bother, confounded, headache, hellbender, nuisance, old man of the sea, pain in the neck, pestilential, stiff, tease, tough, troublemaker, troublesome), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, killing, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilential, virulent, vital). (various references)

Ukranian		смертоносний (basilisk, deadly, homicidal, internecine, lethal, murderous, slaughterous), шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), набридливий (annoying, bothersome, nagging, pesky, wearisome, weary, worrisome). (various references)

Vietnamese		làm khó chịu (annoying, bothersome, irksome, provoking). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 24, Verse 5
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	EuronteV gar ton andra touton loimon kai kinounta stasin pasin toiV ioudaioiV toiV kata thn oikoumenhn prwtostathn te thV twn nazwraiwn airesewV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Invenimus hunc hominem pestiferum et concitantem seditiones omnibus Iudaeis in universo orbe et auctorem seditionis sectae Nazarenorum
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	We han foundun this wickid man stirynge dissencioun to alle Jewis in al the world, and auctour of dissencioun of the secte of Nazarenus; and he also enforside to defoule the temple;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	We have founde this ma a pestilent felowe and a mover of debate vnto all the Iewes thorowe out the worlde and a mayntayner of ye secte of the Nazarites
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For we have found this a pestilent man, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 24, Verse 5
Albanian	Ne kemi gjetur se ky njeri është një murtajë dhe shkakton trazira midis gjithë Judenjve që janë në botë dhe është kryetari i sektit të Nazarenasve.
Cebuano	Kay among nakita nga maoy usa ka samokan kining tawhana, tig-ugda ug mga kagubot sa tanang mga Judio sa tibuok kalibutan, ug pangulo sa pundok sa mga Nazareno.
Chinese	我們看這個人、如同瘟疫一般、是鼓動普天下眾猶太人生亂的、又是拿撒勒教黨裡的一個頭目．
Croatian	Utvrdismo da je ovaj èovjek kuga, da pokreæe bune meðu svim Židovima po svijetu, da je kolovoða nazaretske sljedbe,
Danish	Vi have nemlig fundet, at denne Mand er en Pest og en Oprørsstifter iblandt alle Jøderne hele Verden over, samt er Fører for Nazaræernes Parti,
Dutch	Want wij hebben dezen man bevonden te zijn een pest, en een, die oproer verwekt onder al de Joden, door de ganse wereld, en een oppersten voorstander van de sekte der Nazarenen.
Finnish	Me olemme havainneet, että tämä mies on ruttotauti ja metelinnostaja kaikkien koko maailman juutalaisten keskuudessa ja nasaretilaisten lahkon päämies,
French	Nous avons trouvé cet homme, qui est une peste, qui excite des divisions parmi tous les Juifs du monde, qui est chef de la secte des Nazaréens,
German	Wir haben diesen Mann gefunden schädlich, und der Aufruhr erregt allen Juden auf dem ganzen Erdboden, und einen vornehmsten der Sekte der Nazarener,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Kami dapati orang ini pengacau yang berbahaya. Di mana-mana ia menimbulkan keributan di antara orang-orang Yahudi dan ia menjadi pemimpin gerakan orang-orang Nazaret.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Karena orang ini hamba sekalian dapati seperti sampar, yaitu seorang penggerak huru-hara kepada sekalian orang Yahudi di seluruh dunia, dan menjadi kepala mazhab Nasrani,
Italian	Abbiamo scoperto che quest'uomo è una peste, fomenta continue rivolte tra tutti i Giudei che sono nel mondo ed è capo della setta dei Nazorei.
Latvian	Mçs atradâm, ka ðis cilvçks ir mçris un nemiera cçlâjs starp visiem jûdiem visâ pasaulç un Nâcarieða sektas vadîtâjs,
Maori	I mau hoki i a matou te koroke nei, he tangata whakatutehu, e whakaoho ana i nga Hurai katoa o te ao, ko ia hoki te tino take o te titorehanga ki ta nga Nahareti:
Norwegian	For vi har funnet at denne mann er en pest og en opvigler blandt alle jøder rundt om i verden og en leder for nasareernes sekt;
Portuguese	Temos achado que este homem é uma peste, e promotor de sedições entre todos os judeus, por todo o mundo, e chefe da seita dos nazarenos;
Rumanian	Am gqsit pe omul acesta, care este o ciumq: pune la cale rqzvrqtiri printre toyi Iudeii de pe tot pqmkntul, este mai marele partidei Nazarinenilor,
Shuar	Ju aishman Papru, sunkura utsukratniua Núniniaiti. Niisha Ashí nunkanam mesetan najanatniun Israer aentsun Ikiakáiniaiti. Tura Jesusa aentsri, Nasarénu tuinia nuna uuntrinti.
Spanish	Porque hemos hallado que este hombre es una plaga, y es promotor de sediciones entre los judíos de todo el mundo y cabecilla de la secta de los nazarenos.
Swahili	Tumegundua kwamba mtu huyu ni wa hatari mno. Yeye huanzisha ghasia kati ya Wayahudi kila mahali duniani na pia ni kiongozi wa kile chama cha Wanazareti.
Uma	"Ta'uli' -mi-hawo, Paulus toei-e mai, tauna to mpobalinai' ngata. Hiapa-apa-i mpo'usoki to Yahudi mpo'ewa topoparenta. Pai' hi'a toe-mi pangkeni-ra to mpotuku' tudui' -na Yesus to Nazaret.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pestilent": pestilential, pestilentially, pestilently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pestilent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pestilant, petilent, petillant, Pistolet, Postdienst. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pestilent" (pronounced 'Pes"ti*lent'): Acidulent, Attollent, Benevolent, Bivalent, Cinerulent, Convellent, Corpulent, Dedolent, flatulent, Florulent, fraudulent, Frustulent, Glent, indolent, insolent, luculent, Lutulent, Macilent, malevolent, Maltalent, monovalent, Mucopurulent, Muculent, Multivalent, Octavalent, Olent, Omniprevalent, Opulent, Pentavalent, Poculent, Polyvalent, Potulent, Precellent, Prevalent, Puberulent, Pulverulent, Purulent, Quadrivalent, Quantivalent, Quinquivalent, redolent, Revellent, Rorulent, Sanguinolent, Sexavalent, Sexivalent, Slent, somnolent, Superexcellent, tetravalent. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: entitles, penlites, plenties.
	-2 letters: entitle, epistle, lisente, nettles, pelites, penlite, pensile, petites, pettles, pintles, plenist, setline, spittle, telnets, tensile.
	-3 letters: elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, inlets, instep, listee, listen, litten, nestle, nettle, pelite, penile, pensil, pestle, petite, pettle, pintle, senile, septet, settle, silent, sitten, spinel, spinet, spleen, splent, spline, splint, stipel, telnet, tenets.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-n-p-s-t-t"
	+2 letters: pestilently, plentitudes, telephonist.
	+3 letters: interpolates, pentlandites, persistently, pestilential, postelection, telephonists, teleprinters.
	+4 letters: interpellates, letterspacing, pretentiously, septentrional.
	+5 letters: antepenultimas, antiepileptics, contemplatives, interpellators, letterspacings, paleomagnetist, pelletizations, pestilentially, potentialities, presentability, presentational, presentimental, teleportations, toploftinesses.
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