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List of meaning for pestiferous

carrying infection or disease

dirty, pestiferous(adj)

contaminated with infecting organisms

"dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey(adj)

likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease

"a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"

corruptive, perversive, pestiferous(adj)

tending to corrupt or pervert

annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing(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"

causing annoyance

a pestiferous weed that has given gardeners no end of grief

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