pestilent

Questions about pestilent

What does pestilent mean?

pestilent means "exceedingly harmful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pestilent?

pestilent has 3 syllables: pe-sti-lent. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for pestilent?

Close synonyms include baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilential, pestiferous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pestilent a common word?

pestilent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.