Synonyms of the word

pestilent

• adj. Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly.
• adj. (informal) Annoying.
• adj. (archaic) Harmful to morals or public order.

baneful

• adj. Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
• adj. Deadly or sinister.
• adj. Portending disaster.
• adj. (archaic) Poisonous.

deadly

• adj. (obsolete) Subject to death; mortal.
• adj. Causing death; lethal.
• adj. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
• adj. (by extension) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
• adj. (informal) Very boring.
• adj. (informal) Excellent, awesome, cool.
• adv. (obsolete) Fatally, mortally.
• adv. In a way which suggests death.
• adv. Extremely.

epidemic

• n. A widespread disease that affects many individuals in a population.
• n. (epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population at a frequency higher than that…
• adj. Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread.

harmful

• adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

noxious

• adj. Harmful; injurious.

pernicious

• adj. Causing much harm in a subtle way.
• adj. Causing death or injury; deadly.

pestiferous

• adj. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
• adj. annoying, vexatious.

pestilential

• adj. Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.

plaguey

• adj. Alternative spelling of plaguy.