PESTIFEROUS
Scrabble letter values: P3E1S1T1I1F4E1R1O1U1S1 = 16
Definition
- adjective contaminated with infecting organisms. — synonyms: dirty
- adjective likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease. — synonyms: pestilent, pestilential, plaguey
- adjective tending to corrupt or pervert. — synonyms: corruptive, perversive
- adjective causing irritation or annoyance. — synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, plaguy
Examples
- “dirty wounds”
- “obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen”
- “a pestilential malignancy in the air- Jonathan Swift”