Pestiferous

Definition: Pestiferous

Pestiferous

Adjective

1. Causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong".

Date "pestiferous" was first used: 1458. (references)

Etymology: Pestiferous \Pes*tif"er*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest ferre to bear: compare to the French expression pestif[`e]re.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Pestiferous

Synonyms: annoying (adj), bothersome (adj), galling (adj), irritating (adj), nettlesome (adj), pesky (adj), pestering (adj), plaguey (adj), plaguy (adj), teasing (adj), vexatious (adj), vexing (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insalubrity	Adjective: insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome; morbific, morbiferous; mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous, envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic; narcotic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pestiferous

English words defined with "pestiferous": Boraginaceous ♦ Pestful ♦ Squirrel grass. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To the Gillenormands, Pontmercy was pestiferous.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Pestiferous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pestiferous" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

Expression using "pestiferous": annoying galling chafing irritating nettlesome pesky pestiferous pestilent plaguy plaguey teasing vexatious vexing. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "pestiferous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sëmundjesjellës, molepsës (infectious, infective, pestilent, pestilential, transmissible), infektues (catching, contagious, infectious), bezdisës (pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, vexing). (various references)

Arabic		‏خبيث خطر على المجتمع. (various references)

Bulgarian		вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, prejudicial), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, lively, parlous, perilous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), непоносим (deadly, importunate, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, murderous, provoking, thick, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable), морално застрашаващ (pestilential), заразен (communicable, contagious, contaminated, infected, infectious, pestilent, pestilential), дразнещ (abrasive, dirty, exasperating, harassing, irritant, irritating, irritative, jarring, provocative, raspy, trying, vexatious), досаден (aggravating, annoying, boring, bothersome, importunate, intrusive, irksome, irritating, lengthy, long winded, monotonous, mundane, obtrusive, officious, pain in the neck, painful, pesky, pestilent, plaguesome, plaguy, ponderous, prolix, provoking, tedious, tiresome, tiring, vexatious, weariful, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Czech		morový (pestilent, pestilential, plaguy). (various references)

French		pestilentiel (pestilent, pestilential). (various references)

Greek		λοιμικόσ, ολέθριοσ (baneful, calamitous, disastrous, noxious, pernicious, ruinous). (various references)

Hungarian		veszedelmes (dangerous, malign, noxious, parlous, perilous, pernicious, poisonous, ruinous), fertőző (catching, contagious, infectious, miasmal, miasmatic, virulent), dögletes (pestilent, poisonous). (various references)

Italian		pestifero (disgusting, pestilent, stinking). (various references)

Manx		paittoil (pestilent). (various references)

Pig Latin		estiferouspay

Portuguese		prejudicial (adverse, bad, baneful, deteriorative, detrimental, detrimentally, harmful, hurtful, ill feeling, inimical, injurious, nod, prejudicial, ruinous, wrongful), pestilento (fumy, pestilent, pestilential), pesticida, pestífero, pernicioso (baleful, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, malign, malignity, mischievous, noxious, pernicious, pestle, poisonous, prelacy), nocivo (adverse, bad, foul, harmful, harmless, hurtful, injurious, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, wrongful). (various references)

Romanian		primejdios (breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, hazardous, insecure, perilous, perilously, perniciously), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, slow, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary), pisãlog (bore, bothersome, faggot, pesky, pestle), cicãlitor (annoying, caviller, fault finding, grumbler, nagging, naggy, quarrelsome). (various references)

Russian		вредный (bad, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, malign, nocuous, noisome, noxious, parlous, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unwholesome, wrongful), надоедливый (annoying, boring, bothersome, irksome, meddlesome, molestful, pain in the neck, pesky, plaguesome, tiresome). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zarazan (catching, communicable, contagious, infectious, miasmatic, pestilent, pestilential, plaguy, virulent, zymotic), ubistven (lethiferous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential). (various references)

Spanish		pestífero (pestilent, pestilential), pesado (awkward, boring, bulky, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, dull, ghastly, grave, hard, heavy, heavyweight, hefty, hulking, importunate, irritating, labored, laboured, lacklustre, leaden, logy, nuisance, objectionable, onerous, pestilent, pestilential, ponderous, serious, sesquipedalian, slow, soupy, stodgy, unwieldy, valid, weary, weighty), pernicioso (damnific, maleficent, malignant, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential), fastidioso (annoying, bothering, bothersome, fastidious, irksome, irritating, plaguey, plaguy, troublesome, trying, wearisome, weary). (various references)

Swedish		pestförande (pestilential), skadlig (adverse, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, evil, harmful, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malign, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, prejudicial), besvärlig (annoying, awkward, bothersome, cumbersome, cumbrous, difficult, incommodious, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguy, sticky, tough, troublesome, trying, uphill, warm, worrisome). (various references)

Ukranian		шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), згубний (baneful, calamitous, damnatory, damnific, damning, deleterious, destructive, fatal, holocaustal, holocaustic, maleficent, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruinous, withering), заразний (cankerous, contagious, infectious, taking, transmissible, virulent, zymotic). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pestiferus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pestiferous": pestiferously, pestiferousness, pestiferousnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pestiferous" (pronounced 'Pes*tif"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-o-p-r-s-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: poetisers, proteuses, putrefies, stupefies, supersoft.
	-3 letters: espouser, firepots, foetuses, outfires, outpress, perfuses, pieforts, poetiser, poetises, poetries, postfire, postures, presifts, prosiest, prosties, pursiest, reposits, repousse, respites, ripostes, roupiest, soupiest, spouters, superset, sureties, surfeits, surfiest, triposes.
	-4 letters: espouse, esprits, estrous, festers, fetuses, firepot, fissure, forests, forties, fosters, frisees, fussier, fusspot, fustier, oestrus, ousters, outfire, outsees.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-o-p-r-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: pestiferously.
	+3 letters: superfetations.
	+4 letters: perfunctoriness, pestiferousness, superinfections.
	+5 letters: unprofitableness.
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