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Another word for pandemic

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Adjective

  1. So pervasive and all-inclusive as to exist in or affect the whole world

      1. Involving or extending throughout the entire world; universal:
      2. Throughout the world:
      1. Of, relating to, or affecting the entire universe:
      2. Including, relating to, or affecting all members of the class or group under consideration; applicable in all cases:
      3. Done, produced, or shared by all members of the class or group under consideration:
      1. Of, relating to, or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
      2. Of or relating to the earth; terrestrial or earthly:
      3. Of or affecting the entire world; global:
      1. Having the shape of a globe; spherical.
      2. Of, relating to, or involving the entire earth; worldwide:
      3. Comprehensive; total:
      1. Of worldwide scope or applicability; universal.
      2. Of or relating to the worldwide Christian church.
      3. Concerned with establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions.
      1. Pertinent or common to the whole world:
      2. Having constituent elements from all over the world or from many different parts of the world:
      3. So sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world or conversant with many spheres of interest:
      1. Of or relating to the regions of the universe distinct from Earth.
      2. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast:
      1. Of broad or liberal scope; comprehensive:
      2. Including or concerning all humankind; universal:
      3. Of or involving the Roman Catholic Church.
    See also:

    specific

    limited

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Sentence Examples

  • From all these it finally disappeared about 1680, at the close of a period of pandemic prevalence.

  • In short, if we regard the history of this disease as a whole, it appears to have lost such power from the time of the Great Plague of London in 1665, which was part of a pandemic wave, until the present day.

  • And even in the East plague was confined to more or less clearly localized epidemics; it showed no power of pandemic diffusion.

  • Diffusion.-At the outset it is characteristic of this subtle disorder that the present pandemic diffusion cannot be traced with certainty to a definite time or place of origin.

  • In the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic, the death toll reached a staggering 20 to 40 million worldwide.

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