'Pestiferous' definitions:
Definition of 'pestiferous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty, pestiferous]
adjective
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" [syn: pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey]
adjective
Tending to corrupt or pervert [syn: corruptive, perversive, pestiferous]
adjective
Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]
Definition of 'Pestiferous'
From: GCIDE
- Pestiferous \Pes*tif"er*ous\, a. [L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestif[`e]re.]
- 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." --Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. [1913 Webster]
- Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pestiferous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bad,
- bad for,
- baneful,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- catching,
- communicable,
- contagious,
- contaminated,
- deadly,
- destructive,
- disturbing,
- endemic,
- envenomed,
- epidemial,
- epidemic,
- epiphytotic,
- epizootic,
- exasperating,
- foul,
- galling,
- harassing,
- harmful,
- importunate,
- importune,
- infectious,
- infective,
- injurious,
- inoculable,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmatic,
- miasmic,
- morbific,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- pandemic,
- pathogenic,
- peccant,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- provoking,
- septic,
- sporadic,
- spreading,
- tainted,
- taking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- toxic,
- toxicant,
- toxiferous,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unsanitary,
- unwholesome,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- virulent,
- wearisome,
- worrisome,
- worrying,
- zymotic