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epidemic

/ˌɛpɪˈdɛmɪk/noun, adjective4 syllables

Epidemic means: (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously.

Synonyms for epidemic16

adjective, as in (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously

epiphytotic, epizootic, pandemic, pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey

also used for epidemic

common, ubiquitous, disseminated, far-flung, extensive, pervasive, predominant, prevailing, prevalent

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Opposites of epidemic

endemic, ecdemic

What does epidemic mean?2

adjective

1

(especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously“an epidemic outbreak of influenza”

noun

1

a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with epidemic?4

four syllables

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Epidemic in a sentence

  • The opioid epidemic is intentional, a form of eugenics.shekitten
  • A serious epidemic broke out in the school, and three of the boys died.Hybrid
  • During the epidemic, my bank made all customers use the drive-thru.Eccles17
  • Several hundred years ago, scarlet fever epidemics killed thousands of people throughout the continent.Vanilla
  • What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?CK
  • The administration of a new drug curbed the epidemic.sharptoothed
  • We stop the epidemic with vaccines that don't really protect us against the virus.maaster
  • Xylazine is proof that the heroin epidemic is intentionally being inflicted on people.shekitten

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Forms of epidemic

as a noun

plural
epidemics