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

1. adjective. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
2. adjective. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
3. adjective. 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

4. adjective. tending to corrupt or pervert

   Synonyms: corruptive, perversive

5. adjective. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift

   "a pestilential malignancy in the air"

   "plaguey fevers"

   Synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey

6. adjective. 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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