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pestiferous
adjective
1 pestiferous
Contaminated with infecting organisms.
synonym: dirty.
2 pestiferous
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.
synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey.
Roget 657:
insalubrious;
unhealthy,
unwholesome;
noxious,
noisome;
morbific†,
morbiferous†;
mephitic,
septic,
azotic†,
deleterious;
pestilent,
pestiferous,
pestilential;
virulent,
venomous,
envenomed;
poisonous,
toxic,
toxiferous†,
teratogenic;
narcotic.
contagious,
infectious,
catching,
taking,
epidemic,
zymotic†;
epizootic.
innutritious†,
indigestible,
ungenial;
uncongenial
etc.
(disagreeing)
24.
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361.
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3 pestiferous
4 pestiferous
Causing irritation or annoyance.
synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing ... show more.
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 ... show more.
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