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diseaseful

diseaseful adjective: full of, afflicted by, or causing diseases.

Adjective

diseaseful (comparative more diseaseful, superlative most diseaseful)

  1. Full of, afflicted by, or causing diseases.
    • a diseaseful climate
  2. (obsolete) Causing uneasiness.
    • For where the majesty of a king's house draws recourse and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people, if the ways near-abouts be not fair and good […]c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court

Forms of diseaseful

comparativemore diseaseful
superlativemost diseaseful

Origin of diseaseful

From disease + -ful.

Words formed from diseaseful

Questions about diseaseful

What does diseaseful mean?
Diseaseful means full of, afflicted by, or causing diseases.
What part of speech is diseaseful?
Diseaseful is an adjective.

Words near diseaseful in the dictionary

  1. disease-modifying
  2. disease-ridden
  3. diseased
  4. diseasedly
  5. diseasedness
  6. diseaseful
  7. diseasefulness
  8. diseaseless
  9. diseaselessness
  10. diseaselike
  11. diseasement

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