Definition for Epidemic:

• A disease which attacks: great number of people at the same time and in the same place.

Synonyms for Epidemic:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • epidemic.
  •catching (adjective)
  • more infective,
  • more miasmatic,
  • most epizootic,
  • infective,
  • more epizootic,
  • most infective,
  • most miasmatic,
  • most transmittable,
  • more transmittable.
  •contagious (adjective)
  • more transmissible,
  • more inoculable,
  • most impartible,
  • most inoculable,
  • most transmissible,
  • more impartible.
  •rampant (adjective)
  • more rampaging,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • most blustering,
  • un checked,
  • pre dominant,
  • pro-fuse,
  • exceeding bounds,
  • un-controllable,
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • un-bridled,
  • on the rampage,
  • un-governable,
  • un controllable,
  • un bridled,
  • un-restrained,
  • out control,
  • most rampaging,
  • more blustering,
  • pre-dominant,
  • un-checked,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • pro fuse,
  • on rampage.
  •rife (adjective)
  • thronged.
  •widespread (adjective)
  • wall-to-wall,
  • all over the place,
  • outspread,
  • across the board.

• n.

  •
  • jump,
  • leap,
  • spurt,
  • explosion,
  • growth,
  • surge,
  • upsurge,
  • upswing,
  • rise.
  •
  • advanced,
  • communicable,
  • congenital,
  • acute,
  • autoimmune,
  • clinical,
  • asymptomatic,
  • benign,
  • increase,
  • chronic.
  •adulteration (noun)
  • contamination.
  •contamination (noun)
  • de cay,
  • de cays,
  • radio-activations,
  • rottennesses,
  • dirtyings,
  • radio activations,
  • radio activation,
  • de-cays,
  • radioactivations,
  • de-cay,
  • radio-activation.
  •disease (noun)
  • inflammation,
  • unhealthiness,
  • Sickliness,
  • flu,
  • ill health,
  • endemics,
  • pathosis,
  • up set,
  • visitation.
  •epidemic (noun)
  • pestilent,
  • pandemic,
  • pestilential,
  • plaguelike,
  • plaguey,
  • epiphytotic.
  •flare-up (noun)
  • flare up.
  •outbreak (noun)
  • dis charge,
  • dis-charges,
  • out-breaks,
  • up rising,
  • dis charges,
  • out break,
  • out pouring,
  • sunderings,
  • re-volutions,
  • up-rising,
  • out-pouring,
  • re volutions,
  • up-risings,
  • be-ginning,
  • out-break,
  • dis-charge,
  • be ginning,
  • up risings,
  • out breaks,
  • burstings,
  • re-volution.
  •pest (noun)
  • head ache,
  • tormentors,
  • tormentor,
  • pesterers,
  • pesterer,
  • badgerer,
  • thorn in side,
  • crashing bore.
  •plague (noun)
  • scourge.
  •widespread disease (noun)
  • wave,
  • spread.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • contagion,
  • insufficiency,
  • deformity,
  • malformation,
  • incapacity,
  • infirmity,
  • affliction,
  • syndrome,
  • insanity,
  • pestilence,
  • ailment,
  • STD,
  • mental illness,
  • malaise,
  • STI,
  • illness,
  • disorder,
  • complaint,
  • incidence,
  • sickness,
  • malady,
  • indisposition,
  • dysfunction.
  •
  • virus,
  • burnout,
  • bug,
  • condition.
  •
  • disturbance,
  • trouble,
  • upset.
  •
  • case.
  •communicable
  • contagious.

Paraphrases for Epidemic:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    illness, communicable.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pandemic, outbreak, epidemiological.
  • Proper noun, singular
    pandemic, outbreak, Outbreaks, epidemiological.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    pandemic, epizootic, pestilence, scourge, outbreak, spread, epidemiological, prevalence, sickness, infestation, virus.

Antonyms for Epidemic:

• adj.

  • all
    ecdemic, endemic.
  • widespread
    limited.
  • Other antonyms:
    Enzootic, Endemical.

• n.

  • widespread disease
    advantage.

Epidemic Sentence Examples:

• They contemplated the latest victim of the epidemic.

• There was an epidemic of typhoid down there.

Homophones for Epidemic:

• epitomize, evidence, epididymis, epitomise.

Hypernym for Epidemic:

• n.

  • event
    pandemic.

Hyponym for Epidemic:

• n.

  • event
    eruption, irruption, outbreak.