English Dictionary

pestilential

形容詞

人間対象 病気 前置詞句 期間表現 比喩的用法

(of people, animals, places or substances) Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. / (of illnesses) Spreading in the manner of pestilence.

日本語の意味

疫病を引き起こす、広める、又は感染させる性質がある / 疫病のように広がる様子を示す

The pestilential swamp bred disease-carrying mosquitoes that decimated nearby villages.

疫病をもたらす沼地は病気を媒介する蚊を繁殖させ、近くの村々を壊滅させた。

意味（1）

(of people, animals, places or substances) Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection.

What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. […] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.

意味（2）

(of illnesses) Spreading in the manner of pestilence.

A long sicknesse will weary friends at last; but a pestilentiall sicknes auerts them from the beginning.

意味（3）

(of symptoms) Caused by pestilence.

pestilential fever; pestilential sweating

意味（4）

(of a period of time) During which pestilence spreads.

Now this pestilentiall Summer being well spent, upon the approach of the Winter, and decrease of the Sicknesse, the King […] drawes nearer to the City of London,

意味（5）

(figuratively) Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).

Are to their own unhappy Coasts confin’d, […] So Presby’try and Pestilential Zeal Can only flourish in a Common-weal.

意味（6）

(figuratively) Causing irritation or annoyance.

There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs […] They’d none of ’em be missed!

more pestilential （ comparative ）

most pestilential （ superlative ）