epidemic

epidemic is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Alt. of Epidemical. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Alt. of Epidemical
2. noun. An epidemic disease.
3. noun. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
4. noun. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
5. adjective. (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"

Common word forms

epidemics, epidemical, epidemicity

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