- 1. a. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. Source: opted
- 2. a. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. Source: opted
- 3. adj. contaminated with infecting organisms Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. tending to corrupt or pervert Source: wordnet
- 6. adj. causing irritation or annoyance Source: wordnet
- 7. 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. Source: webster
- 8. s contaminated with infecting organisms s likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease s tending to corrupt or pervert s causing irritation or annoyance Source: ecdict
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