pestiferous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
    — because he hath vouchsafed to preserue our nation from such fountains, from serpents and venemous wormes, & from al other pestiferous & contagious creatures.
  2. annoying, vexatious
    — No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness, / Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious pranks, / As very infants prattle of thy pride.

词形变化

more pestiferous comparative most pestiferous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
pestiferously pestiferousness
相关词
pest pestilent

词源

Mid 15th century, in sense “mischievous, pernicious”, from Latin pestiferus (“bearing plague”), from pestifer, from pestis (“plague”) + ferre (“carry”) (see infer).
By surface analysis, pest + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.
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