About The Word Pestiferous
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Pestiferous
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What's The Definition Of Pestiferous?
[adj] 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pestiferous: annoying | bothersome | disagreeable | galling | irritating | nettlesome | pesky | pestering | plaguey | plaguy | teasing | vexatious | vexing Related Terms | Find terms related to Pestiferous: 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 See Also | Pestiferous In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious;
hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. --Shak.
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