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pandemic
[pan-dem-ik] 
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pandemic
[pan-dem-ik]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | universal |
| Synonyms: | accepted, all, all-embracing, all-inclusive, all-over, astronomical, broad, catholic, celestial, common, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, customary, diffuse, ecumenical, empyrean, extensive, general, generic, global, multinational, mundane, omnipresent, planetary, prevalent, regular, stellar, sweeping, terrestrial, total*, ubiquitous, undisputed, unlimited, unrestricted, usual, whole, widespread, worldly, worldwide |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | communicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able to be contracted |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicative, contagious, expansive, infectious, pandemic, taking, transferable, transmittable |
| Antonyms: | incontractable, noncommunicable, noncontagious |
| Main Entry: | epidemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | widespread |
| Synonyms: | catching, communicable, contagious, endemic, general, infectious, pandemic, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, rife, sweeping, wide-ranging |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Antonyms: | limited |
| Main Entry: | global |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worldwide, all-encompassing |
| Synonyms: | all-around, all-inclusive, all-out, blanket, catholic, comprehensive, cosmic, cosmopolitan, earthly, ecumenical, encyclopedic, exhaustive, general, grand, international, mundane, overall, pandemic, planetary, spherical, sweeping, thorough, total, unbounded, universal, unlimited, world |
| Antonyms: | individual, limited, local |
| Main Entry: | plague |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disease that is widespread |
| Synonyms: | affliction, contagion, curse, epidemic, hydra, infection, infestation, influenza, invasion, outbreak, pandemic, pestilence, rash, ravage, scourge |
| Main Entry: | rampant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled, out of hand |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, blustering, boisterous, clamorous, dominant, epidemic, exceeding bounds, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, fanatical, flagrant, furious, growing, impetuous, impulsive, luxuriant, on the rampage, out of control, outrageous, pandemic, predominant, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampaging, rank, rife, riotous, spreading, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruly, vehement, violent, wanton, widespread, wild |
| Antonyms: | checked, controlled, limited, restrained |
| Main Entry: | rash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outbreak of disease or condition |
| Synonyms: | breakout, epidemic, eruption, flood, hives, pandemic, plague, series, spate, succession, wave |
| Main Entry: | rife |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overflowing |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, alive, common, current, epidemic, extensive, frequent, general, many, multitudinous, numerous, pandemic, plentiful, popular, prevailing, prevalent, profuse, raging, rampant, regnant, replete, ruling, swarming, teeming, thronged, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
| Antonyms: | low, scarce |
| Main Entry: | widespread |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extensive |
| Synonyms: | across the board, all over the place, boundless, broad, common, comprehensive, current, diffuse, epidemic, far-flung, far-reaching, general, on a large scale, outspread, overall, pandemic, pervasive, popular, prevailing, prevalent, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, sweeping, universal, unlimited, unrestricted, wall-to-wall, wholesale |
| Antonyms: | concentrated, limited, local, narrow |
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