Pandemic \Pan*dem"ic\, a. [L. pandemus, Gr. ?, ?; pa^s, pa^n,
all + ? the people: cf. F. pand['e]mique.]
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere
epidemic. -- n. A pandemic disease. --Harvey.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pandemic
adj 1: epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbreak
of malaria"
2: existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
n : an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring
throughout a region or even throughout the world
WordNet (r) 2.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "pandemic":
ambulatory plague, average, besetting, black death, black plague,
bubonic plague, catching, cellulocutaneous plague, common,
communicable, contagious, current, defervescing plague, dominant,
endemic, epidemial, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic,
glandular plague, hemorrhagic plague, infectious, infective,
inoculable, larval plague, murrain, normal, ordinary, pandemia,
pest, pesthole, pestiferous, pestilence, pestilential, plague,
plague spot, pneumonic plague, popular, predominant, predominating,
premonitory plague, prevailing, prevalent, rampant, regnant,
reigning, rife, routine, ruling, running, scourge,
septicemic plague, siderating plague, sporadic, spreading,
standard, stereotyped, taking, tuberculosis, usual, white plague,
zymotic
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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