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pustulent

pustulent adjective: filled or oozing with pus. Also the alternative spelling of pustulant.

Adjective

pustulent (comparative more pustulent, superlative most pustulent)

  1. Filled or oozing with pus.
    • a pustulent sore
    • His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.1994, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain, →ISBN, page 114

Also used as

pustulent is also the alternative spelling of pustulant.

Forms of pustulent

comparativemore pustulent
superlativemost pustulent

Origin of pustulent

From pustule + -ent.

Questions about pustulent

What does pustulent mean?
Pustulent means filled or oozing with pus.
What part of speech is pustulent?
Pustulent is an adjective.

Words near pustulent in the dictionary

  1. pustulations
  2. pustulatous
  3. pustule
  4. pustuled
  5. pustulelike
  6. pustulent
  7. pustules
  8. pustuliform
  9. pustulocrustaceous
  10. pustulose
  11. pustulosis

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