epidemic
adjective
1. (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
Similar word(s): epiphytotic, epizootic, pandemic, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey
Sentences with epidemic as an adjective:
- Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection.