infestuous

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.
    — 1593, Thomas Nashe, Christs Teares over Jerusalem, London: Andrewe Wise, Ronald B. McKerrow (editor), The Works of Thomas Nashe, London: A.H. Bullen, 1904, Volume 2, p. 69, The Store-houses burnt, the siege harde plyed, the waste of victuals great, the husbanding of them none at all, there fell such an infestuous unsaciable famine amongst them, that if all the stones of Jerusalem had been bread, and they should have tyred on them, yet woulde they have beene behind hand with their appetite.

词形变化

more infestuous comparative most infestuous superlative

词源

From Latin infestus. See infest (adjective). By surface analysis, infest + -u- + -ous.
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