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morbific
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective morbific has 1 sense
- morbific(s = adj.all) infective, pathogenic - able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"
CIDE DICTIONARY
morbific, a. [L. morbus disease + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. morbifique. See -fy.].
Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
morbific, adj. causing disease.
Etymology
F morbifique or mod.L morbificus f. L morbus disease
THESAURUS
morbific
bad, bad for, contaminated, foul, harmful, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, noisome, noxious, pathogenic, peccant, pestiferous, polluted, septic, tainted, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unwholesomeROGET THESAURUS
morbific
Insalubrity
N insalubrity, unhealthiness, nonnaturals, plague spot, malaria, death in the pot, contagion, toxicity, insalubrious, unhealthy, unwholesome, noxious, noisome, morbific, morbiferous, mephitic, septic, azotic, deleterious, pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential, virulent, venomous, envenomed, poisonous, toxic, toxiferous, teratogenic, narcotic, contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic, epizootic, innutritious, indigestible, ungenial, uncongenial, deadly.
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