Pestiferous

[pestifәrәs]

Definition

(a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.

(a.) Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.

Typist: Sean

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Pestilential.

Editor: Moll

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Insalubrious, pestilential, deleterious, mephitic, virulent, mortiferous,infectious, contagious, catching, lethal, morbific

ANT:{[(ifiiiiil]?}, salubrious, balmy, salutiferous, sanitary, innocuous, remedial,wholesome, nutritive, pure, sanative, disinfectant

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