pestilential vs pestilent

pestilential and pestilent both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pestilential	No	Yes	No	No
pestilent	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, pestilential and pestilent are synonyms defined as:

pestilential and pestilent: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

Other synonyms of pestilential include pestiferous, plaguey.

pestilential (adjective)	pestilent (adjective)
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease	likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
	exceedingly harmful