Synonyms for epidemic
- adjective
- noun
Most common
pandemic prevalent wide-spread prevailing contagious infectious
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Pandemic — like an epidemic, widespread in a bad way
pandemic, prevalent, wide-spread, prevailing, common, rife, general, ubiquitous, universal, predominant, regnant
2. Contagious
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Like an epidemic: widespread in a bad way.
Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection.
- adj. 2
Of, related to, or being an epidemic: a widespread outbreak of disease in humans.
- n. 1
A widespread disease that affects many humans in a population.
Related words
- Word family
- epidemiology epizootic
- Phrases
- epidemic curve epidemic roseola
Forms
- Plural
- epidemics → epizootics…
Example sentences
- prevalent Plastic is the most prevalent type of marine debris.
- pandemic What have you missed the most during the pandemic?
- rife Alcoholism is rife in some parts of Kabylie.
- rash I got a rash on my hands from dishwasher detergent.
By length
- 4 letters
- rash1, rife1
- 6 letters
- common2
- 7 letters
- general3, regnant
- 8 letters
- pandemic3
- 9 letters
- universal4, prevalent3, epiphytic, epizootic
- 10 letters
- infectious3, contagious3, prevailing3, ubiquitous4
- 11 letters
- predominant4, pestiferous
- 12 letters
- pestilential
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (common2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- épidémique
- Italiano
- epidemico