The difference between Pandemic and Rife
When used as adjectives, pandemic means widespread, whereas rife means widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
Pandemic is also noun with the meaning: a pandemic disease.
Rife is also adverb with the meaning: plentifully, abundantly.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pandemic and Rife
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Pandemic as an adjective:
Widespread; general.
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Pandemic as an adjective (medicine):
Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
Examples:
"World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza."
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Pandemic as a noun:
A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
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Rife as an adjective:
Widespread, common, prevalent, current (mainly of unpleasant or harmful things).
Examples:
"Smallpox was rife after the siege had been lifted."
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Rife as an adjective:
Abounding; present in large numbers, plentiful.
Examples:
"These woodlands are rife with red deer."
"Watermelons are rife with seeds."
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Rife as an adjective:
Full of (mostly unpleasant or harmful things).
Examples:
"Many post-colonial governments were rife with lawlessness and corruption."
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Rife as an adjective (obsolete):
Having power; active; nimble.
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Rife as an adverb:
Plentifully, abundantly.
Examples:
"The snowdrops grow rife on the slopes of Mount Pembroke."