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PESTIFEROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing irritation or annoyance
Example:
it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong
Synonyms:
annoying; bothersome; galling; irritating; nettlesome; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguey; plaguy; teasing; vexatious; vexing
Classified under:
Similar:
disagreeable (not to your liking)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tending to corrupt or pervert
Synonyms:
corruptive; perversive; pestiferous
Classified under:
Similar:
evil (morally bad or wrong)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
Example:
plaguey fevers
Synonyms:
pestiferous; pestilent; pestilential; plaguey
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
epidemic ((especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Contaminated with infecting organisms
Example:
obliged to go into infected rooms
Synonyms:
dirty; pestiferous
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Adjectives
Similar:
infected; septic (containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms)
