pestiferous

Meanings

• adjective

  Extremely harmful or offensive.

  - "The pestiferous smell of rotten eggs can be detected from a distance."
  - "The pestiferous insects infested the entire garden."

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Synonyms

pestilent

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with pestiferous
miserable , table , venerable

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Variants

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pestiferous , pestiferously , pestiferousness , pestiferousnesses

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Etymology

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From Latin pestis 'plague' + -fer 'bearing'. A word used to describe something that spreads disease or misery.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'pestiferous' was commonly used during the Black Death pandemic in Europe to describe the disease itself.

2. In the Bible, the term 'pestilence' is used to describe various diseases and plagues that afflicted the people of Israel.

3. The word 'pestiferous' is derived from the Latin word 'pestis', which means 'plague'.

4. The term 'pestiferous' was also used during the Bubonic Plague of 1347 to describe the fleas that carried the disease.

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Related Concepts

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1. contagious: Something that can be spread from one person or thing to another.

2. toxic: Something that is poisonous or harmful.

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Culture

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In literature, the term 'pestiferous' is often used to describe something that is harmful, contagious, or detrimental. For instance, in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', the Nurse describes Tybalt as a 'pestilence' that should be 'banished' from Verona.

How to Memorize "pestiferous"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a disease-ridden rat spreading pestilence. Visualize the sickly smell and the contagious nature of the rat.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'pestiferous' with the word 'plague'. Remember that something pestiferous is harmful and contagious, just like a plague.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic: 'Pestiferous starts with P, Plagues are pestilential and spread, So does something pestiferous.'

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