epidemic

  • (a) (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

Nouns

  • (n) a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

Antonyms

endemic endemical ecdemic

Words of close approximity

epidemic cholera epidemic disease epidemic encephalitis epidemic hysertia epidemic meningitis epidemic myalgia epidemic parotitis epidemic pleurodynia epidemic roseola