'Pandemic' definitions:
Definition of 'pandemic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Epidemic over a wide geographical area; "a pandemic outbreak of malaria"
adjective
Existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"
noun
An epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world
Definition of 'Pandemic'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'pandemic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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