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Pestiferous synonyms
pĕ-stĭf'ər-əs
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virulent
Able to overcome the natural defenses of the host; highly infectious
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  1. Able to overcome the natural defenses of the host; highly infectious
  2. Extremely poisonous or injurious; deadly
  3. Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.
toxic
Extremely risky or harmful, as a debt for which the borrower is in default and the collateral has lost so much value that its sale cannot cover the amount of the loan.
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  1. Extremely risky or harmful, as a debt for which the borrower is in default and the collateral has lost so much value that its sale cannot cover the amount of the loan.
  2. Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous:
  3. Relating to or caused by a toxin or other poison:
unhealthy
Dangerous or risky
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  1. Dangerous or risky
  2. Harmful to character or morality; corruptive:
  3. Of a risky nature; dangerous:
Find another word for pestiferous. In this page you can discover 6 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pestiferous, like: virulent, toxic, unhealthy, harmful, deadly and poisonous.

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  • most part pestiferous dens, overcrowded, dark, foully dirty, not only ill ventilated, but deprived altogether of fresh air.

  • The dense population was due to the elaborate irrigation of the Babylonian plain which had originally reclaimed it from a pestiferous and uninhabitable swamp and had made it the most fertile country in the world.

  • The rainy season, or invierno, is broken by a short period of dry weather, called the veranillo (little summer), shortly after the December solstice; otherwise it rains every day, the streams overflow, land traffic is suspended, and the air is drenched with moisture and becomes oppressive and pestiferous.

  • After being excommunicated as "schismatics and rebels, founders of a superstitious sect, and propagators of false and pestiferous doctrines," they proceeded to elect a general (for Michael of Cesena had disavowed them) and then a pope called Celestine (L.

  • pestiferous beetles.

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