 pestiferous |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | |
| Synonyms: | pestilential plaguey plaguelike pestilent | |
| Examples: | "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift "plaguelike diseases" "plaguey fevers" |
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| Related terms: | epidemic | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] tending to corrupt or pervert | |
| Synonyms: | perversive corruptive | |
| Related terms: | evil | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] contaminated with infecting organisms | |
| Synonyms: | infected dirty contaminated | |
| Examples: | "dirty wounds" "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen |
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| Related terms: | septic | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] causing irritation or annoyance | |
| Synonyms: | pestering nettlesome irritating annoying galling plaguey teasing plaguy vexing vexatious pesky bothersome | |
| Examples: | "tapping an annoying rhythm" "a particularly bothersome noise" "found it galling to have to ask permission" "an irritating delay" "nettlesome paperwork" "a pesky mosquito" "swarms of pestering gnats" |
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| Related terms: | disagreeable | |
