Word
epidemic, adj.
freq. cnt. 5
(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
<adj.all>
freq. cnt.: 5
freq. cnt.: 5
epidemic
sample sentences
"an epidemic outbreak of influenza"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
epidemic
antonym
endemic
ecdemic
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
medicine, medical specialty
similar to
epiphytotic
epizootic
pandemic
pestilential, pestilent, pestiferous, plaguey