Pestiferous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Producing or breeding infectious disease.
  • adj. Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
  • adj. Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
  • adj. Bothersome; annoying.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
  • adj. annoying, vexatious
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious.
  • adj. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Plague-bearing; pestilential; infectious; contagious: as, pestiferous particles.
  • Noxious in any manner; mischievous; malignant; annoying.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. contaminated with infecting organisms
  • adj. causing irritation or annoyance
  • adj. tending to corrupt or pervert
  • adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
    • Equivalent
    septic    infected    disagreeable    evil    epidemic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pest-bearing    pestilential    malignant    infectious    contagious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pestilential    noxious    noisome    fetid    miasmatic   
     
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