Dictionary Entry

pestiferous

pestiferous is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 6 senses

Definitions

1adjective
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
2adjective
Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
3adjective
causing irritation or annoyance
"tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"
"aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"
Synonyms
annoying bothersome galling irritating nettlesome pesky pestering plaguey plaguy teasing vexatious vexing
4adjective
tending to corrupt or pervert
Synonyms
corruptive perversive
5adjective
likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift
"a pestilential malignancy in the air"
"plaguey fevers"
Synonyms
pestilent pestilential plaguey
6adjective
contaminated with infecting organisms- Jane Austen
"dirty wounds"
"obliged to go into infected rooms"
Synonyms
dirty

Synonyms

annoying bothersome galling irritating nettlesome pesky pestering plaguey plaguy teasing vexatious vexing corruptive perversive pestilent pestilential dirty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pestiferous:

septiferous

Common word forms

pestiferously pestiferousness

Words from these letters

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