Definition for Pestilence:

• Any contagious and malignant or mortal disease; the plague; anything sweepingly destructive.

Synonyms for Pestilence:

• n.

  •adulteration (noun)
  • contamination.
  •blight (noun)
  • blot the landscape,
  • blot landscape,
  • de cay,
  • de-cay,
  • de-cays,
  • de cays.
  •canker (noun)
  • canker.
  •contagion (noun)
  • trans-mission,
  • trans-missions,
  • trans missions,
  • trans mission.
  •contaminant (noun)
  • impurity.
  •contamination (noun)
  • rottennesses,
  • radio activations,
  • dis-ease,
  • radio-activations,
  • radio activation,
  • radio-activation,
  • radioactivations,
  • dis-eases,
  • dis ease,
  • dirtyings,
  • dis eases.
  •disease (noun)
  • bug,
  • infection,
  • fever,
  • infliction,
  • complaint,
  • queasiness,
  • decrepitude,
  • nausea,
  • illness,
  • attack,
  • malady,
  • Sickliness,
  • sickness,
  • infirmity,
  • ailment,
  • complication,
  • collapse,
  • virus,
  • disability,
  • apoplexy,
  • ague,
  • condition,
  • symptom,
  • spasm,
  • affection,
  • indisposition,
  • unhealthiness,
  • malaise,
  • debility,
  • handicap,
  • syndrome,
  • breakdown,
  • feverishness,
  • disease,
  • disorder.
  •epidemic (noun)
  • outbreak,
  • rash,
  • endemics,
  • what's going around,
  • endemic.
  •pest (noun)
  • head ache,
  • tormentors,
  • badgerer,
  • thorn in side,
  • pesterers,
  • crashing bore,
  • pesterer,
  • tormentor.
  •scourge (noun)
  • mis fortunes,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • mis fortune.
  •unhealthiness (noun)
  • insalubrity,
  • toxicity,
  • Contagiousness,
  • unwholesomeness,
  • deadliness,
  • malignancy,
  • poisonousness,
  • pathology,
  • noxiousness.
  •unwholesomeness (noun)
  • un-wholesomenesses,
  • un wholesomeness,
  • un-wholesomeness,
  • un wholesomenesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • destroyer.
  •anthrax
  • murrain.

Paraphrases for Pestilence:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    plague.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pest.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    scourge, pandemic, outbreak.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    epidemic, stench, fever, vermin.

Antonyms for Pestilence:

• n.

  • epidemic
    health, advantage.

Pestilence Sentence Examples:

• When she had left they had had a thanksgiving service in the nursery, and Betty - solemn Betty - had prayed aloud, " From Aunt Pike, pestilence, and famine, please deliver us."

• " As far as the chances go, it is 'heads I win, tails you lose'; and sorry enough I am to see you come down and dare the pestilence; but since you are, I might as well say what I was asked to tell you last night.