morbific

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: mor=bif=ic

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, unwholesome

ROGET 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.