pestiferous
Adjective Satellite
- contaminated with infecting organisms; ; - Jane Austen
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; - Jonathan Swift
- tending to corrupt or pervert
- causing irritation or annoyance
Adj
- containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
- annoying, vexatious
Origin / Etymology
Mid 15th century, in sense “mischievous, pernicious”, from Latin pestiferus (“bearing plague”), from pestifer, from pestis (“plague”) + ferre (“carry”) (see infer).
By surface analysis, pest + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.
Synonyms
annoying, bothersome, corruptive, dirty, galling, irritating, nettlesome, perversive, pesky, pestering, pestilent, pestilential, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing
Scrabble Score: 16
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