Synonyms for epidemic
epi·dem·ic

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1. epidemicnoun

   Antonyms:
   endemic

2. epidemicnoun

   Like or having to do with an epidemic; widespread

   Epidemic hysteria occurred upon the incumbent’s reelection.

   Antonyms:
   endemic

3. epidemicnoun

   Antonyms:
   endemic

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1. epidemicadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   endemic, ecdemic, enzootic, endemical

2. epidemicadjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   endemic, enzootic, ecdemic, endemical

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Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. an outbreak of a disease

   it will spead to an other

   Submitted by anonymous on January 17, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. epidemicadjective

   Synonyms:
   general, prevailing, prevalent, pandemic

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1. List of paraphrases for "epidemic":

   outbreak, pandemic, epidemics, epidemiological, plague, disease, pestilence, scourge

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1. Deputy Health Minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell:

   Mexico is entering the epidemic a month later.

2. Kolawole Maxwell:

   You need to see their faces any time the rain comes. It is an environment of despair... it is like an epidemic, it kills the children.

3. Neil Ferguson:

   We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now.

4. Sarah McBride:

   While there certainly are examples of individuals killed by people they know, including partners, many of the transgender people who have been killed are murdered by almost complete strangers, more people need to understand this epidemic of violence targeting minority people in this country, including transgender people, is hate-based and a byproduct of existing prejudice inflamed by politicians all too eager to appeal to the darker undercurrent of society.

5. But Gunnigle:

   Yeah, so we have a heroin epidemic in part because of our overprescription of opioids, in fact, every single day that I've been running I have heard from someone who has been a victim or their close family member has been a victim of the opioid epidemic.