pandemic

Plural: pandemics

Noun

• A widespread infectious disease prevalent over an entire country or the world.
• an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
• A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
• The COVID-19 pandemic.

Adjective Satellite

• epidemic over a wide geographical area
  • "a pandemic outbreak of malaria"
• existing everywhere
  • "pandemic fear of nuclear war"

Adj

• Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
• General, widespread.
• Alternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”).

Examples

• The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.
• The poor tile draws became a PANDEMIC, infecting every player with low-scoring words.

Synonyms

common, disseminated, extensive, far-flung, pandemia, pandemial, pandemic, pandemical, panepidemic, pervasive, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, spread out, systemic, ubiquitous, universal, widespread

Antonyms

nonpandemic

Related Words

Black Death, COVID-19, Pandemic, Spanish flu, bubonic plague, endemic, epidemic, hyperepidemic, infodemic, interepidemic, intraepidemic, nonendemic, nonepidemic, pandemia, pandemial, pandemian, panepidemic, pingdemic, plague, postepidemic, preepidemic

Anagrams of pandemic