pestiferous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pestiferous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for pestiferous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pestiferous adj contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen Synonym(s): dirty, pestiferous likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" Synonym(s): pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey tending to corrupt or pervert Synonym(s): corruptive, perversive, pestiferous 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" Synonym(s): annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pestiferous \Pestif"erous\, a. [L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestif[8a]re.] 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. [bd]Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.[b8] --Evelyn. [bd]Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.[b8] --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.