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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
pestiferous
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
• Syn:
annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome,
nettlesome, pestering, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing
• Similar to:
disagreeable
• Derivationally related forms:
plague (for: plaguey), plague (for: plaguy)
2. tending to corrupt or pervert
• Syn:
corruptive, perversive
• Similar to:
evil
• Derivationally related forms:
pervert (for: perversive), corrupt (for: corruptive)
3. contaminated with infecting organisms
- dirty wounds
- "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
• Syn:
dirty
• Similar to:
septic, infected
• Derivationally related forms:
dirtiness (for: dirty)
4. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
- "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift
- plaguey fevers
• Syn:
pestilent, pestilential, plaguey
• Similar to:
epidemic
• Derivationally related forms:
plague (for: plaguey), pestilence (for: pestilential), pestilence (for: pestilent)
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