English-Thai Dictionary
pestiferous
ADJ ซึ่ง น่ารำคาญ ที่ เป็นปัญหา pestilent rabid harmful sueng-na-ram-kan
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PESTIFEROUS
a.[L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce. ] 1. Pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious.
2. Noxious to peace, to morals or to society; mischievous; destructive.
3. Troublesome; vexatious.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
PESTIFEROUS
Pes *tif "er *ous, a. Etym: [L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest +ferre to bear: cf. F. pestifère.]
1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms. " Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.
2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak.
PESTIFEROUSLY
PESTIFEROUSLY Pes *tif "er *ous *ly, adv.
Defn: In a pestiferuos manner.
New American Oxford Dictionary
pestiferous
pes tif er ous |peˈstifərəs pɛˈstɪfərəs | ▶adjective literary harboring infection and disease: the pestiferous area around the prison. • humorous constituting a pest or nuisance; annoying: that pestiferous nephew of yours. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘morally corrupting ’): from Latin pestifer ‘bringing pestilence ’ + -ous .
Oxford Dictionary
pestiferous
pest |ifer |ous |pɛˈstɪf (ə )rəs | ▶adjective literary harbouring infection and disease: the pestiferous area around the prison. • humorous constituting a nuisance; very annoying: that pestiferous nephew of yours. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘morally corrupting ’): from Latin pestifer ‘bringing pestilence ’ + -ous .
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