Synonyms for Pestiferous
Definition of pestiferous
- adjective
- contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
- tending to corrupt or pervert
13 synonyms found
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