pestiferous

Meaning

adjective

1. contaminated with infecting organisms- Jane Austen
   “dirty wounds”
2. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease- Jonathan Swift
   “a pestilential malignancy in the air”
3. tending to corrupt or pervert
4. causing irritation or annoyance
   “tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork”

Synonyms for pestiferous

• dirty
• septic
• pestilent
• pestilential
• plaguey
• epidemic
• corruptive
• perversive
• evil
• annoying
• bothersome
• galling
• irritating
• nettlesome
• pesky
• pestering
• plaguy
• teasing
• vexatious
• vexing
• disagreeable