pestiferous

Meaning

Adjective

containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
annoying, vexatious

Related

Similar words

pestilent

Origin

Mid 15th century, in sense “mischievous, pernicious”, from Latin pestiferus, from pestifer, from pestis + fero (see infer).
Surface analysis is pest + -ferous.

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