EPIDEMIC as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
   • many people are infected at the same time
   Hypernyms(s) epidemic is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • outbreak (what does outbreak mean?)
   • eruption (what does eruption mean?)
   • irruption (what does irruption mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • pandemic (what does pandemic mean?)

EPIDEMIC as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease
   • attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously
   Usage Example(s)
   • an epidemic outbreak of influenza
   Antonym(s)
   • endemic (what does endemic mean?)
   • endemical (what does endemical mean?)
   • ecdemic (what does ecdemic mean?)
   Similar To
   • pandemic (what does pandemic mean?)
   • pestilent (what does pestilent mean?)
   • pestilential (what does pestilential mean?)
   • pestiferous (what does pestiferous mean?)
   • plaguey (what does plaguey mean?)
   • epiphytotic (what does epiphytotic mean?)
   • epizootic (what does epizootic mean?)