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ɛnˈdɛm ɪken·dem·ic

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  1. endemicadjective

    Native to a particular area or culture; originating where it occurs.

    Kangaroos are endemic to Australia.

    Synonyms:
    native

    Antonyms:
    introduced, alien

  2. endemicadjective

    (Especially of plants and animals.) Peculiar to a particular area or region; not found in other places.

    The endemic religion of Easter Island arrived with the Polynesian settlers.

    Synonyms:
    indigenous

  3. endemicadjective

    Antonyms:
    systemic

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. endemic, endemic diseasenoun

    a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location

    Synonyms:
    endemic disease

    Antonyms:
    pestiferous, pestilential, epizootic, ecdemic, cosmopolitan, widely distributed, epiphytotic, foreign, plaguey, pestilent, strange, epidemic, pandemic

  2. endemicadjective

    a plant that is native to a certain limited area

    "it is an endemic found only this island"

    Synonyms:
    endemic disease

    Antonyms:
    pestilent, pestilential, strange, epiphytotic, ecdemic, pandemic, widely distributed, plaguey, foreign, epizootic, pestiferous, epidemic, cosmopolitan

  3. endemic, endemicaladjective

    of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality

    "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

    Synonyms:
    autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemical, indigenous

    Antonyms:
    pestilent, strange, epidemic, widely distributed, cosmopolitan, plaguey, epizootic, epiphytotic, pandemic, pestiferous, ecdemic, pestilential, foreign

  4. endemicadjective

    native to or confined to a certain region

    "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"

    Synonyms:
    autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemical, indigenous

    Antonyms:
    pestilential, pandemic, pestilent, widely distributed, epizootic, pestiferous, epiphytotic, ecdemic, foreign, cosmopolitan, strange, epidemic, plaguey

  5. autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenousadjective

    originating where it is found

    "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

    Synonyms:
    endemical, autochthonous, autochthonic, autochthonal, indigenous

    Antonyms:
    foreign, widely distributed, pandemic, epizootic, ecdemic, epiphytotic, pestilential, plaguey, strange, pestiferous, epidemic, pestilent, cosmopolitan

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Dictionary of English Synonymes2.5 / 2 votes

  1. endemicadjective

    Synonyms:
    (Med.) of a particular district

  2. endemicnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Med.) endemical disease

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "endemic":

    rampant, endemicity, hiv-endemic, rife, widespread, pervasive

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How to use endemic in a sentence?

  1. Phil Murphy:

    We are not going to manage COVID to zero, we have to learn how to live with COVID as we move from a pandemic to an endemic phase of this virus.

  2. Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein:

    The authorities must bring an end to the endemic impunity in Darfur.

  3. President Obama:

    But I rejected the notion that nothing’s changed, what happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom. And before the Civil Rights Movement, it most surely was.

  4. William Schaffner:

    These data... give us some expectation, assuming that this protection lasts for a while, that we can continue to plan about moving from the pandemic phase to the endemic phase, these data undoubtedly played a substantial role in the CDCs decision to revise its masking recommendations.

  5. Zsuzsanna Jakab:

    Until malaria is eradicated globally, people traveling to and from malaria-endemic countries can import the disease to Europe, and we have to keep up the good work to prevent its reintroduction.


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