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Definition of Pestiferous
1. Adjective. Contaminated with infecting organisms. "Obliged to go into infected rooms"
2. Adjective. Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. "Plaguey fevers"
Similar to: Epidemic
Derivative terms: Pestilence, Pestilence, Plague
3. Adjective. Tending to corrupt or pervert.
4. Adjective. Causing irritation or annoyance. "It is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
Similar to: Disagreeable
Derivative terms: Plague, Plague
Definition of Pestiferous
1. a. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Definition of Pestiferous
1. Adjective. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases ¹
2. Adjective. annoying, vexatious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pestiferous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pestiferous
1. Relating to or tending to produce a pestilence. Synonym: pestiferous. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestiferous
Literary usage of Pestiferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... long tainted with this pestiferous sin, the barons sent special messengers,
namely, the archbishop of ..."
2. The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey Through China and by William John Gill, Henry Yule (1880)
"Departure from Yung-Ch'ang—Graves of Aborigines—Hun Shui-Tang— Fine Ponies and
Mules—Fang-Ma-Ch'ang—pestiferous Valley of the Lu-Ch'iang or Salwen ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... however, that in this plant an almost ineradicable pestiferous weed had been
introduced, its cultivation was restricted to low, undrained tracts, ..."
4. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"... carrot, or ripe squash has proved effective. Crystals of the same poison may
be inserted in the bait with a knife. pestiferous Birds Bird poisons. ..."
5. A Biblical and Theological Dictionary: Explanatory of the History, Manners by Richard Watson, Nathan Bangs (1832)
"... in general belief, of killing with KB pestiferous breath the -strongest animals,
it seemed to them invested with the power of life and death. ..."
6. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society, British Soviet Friendship Society (1906)
"The most pestiferous foe the fruit-grower here has to combat, and one that gives
him the most trouble, is the high freight rate to the market of the East, ..."
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