diseaseful

English

Etymology

From disease +‎ -ful.

Adjective

diseaseful (comparative more diseaseful, superlative most diseaseful)

1. Full of, afflicted by, or causing diseases.

   a diseaseful climate

2. (obsolete) Causing uneasiness.
   • c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court

     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 […]

Derived terms

• diseasefulness

 

References

• “diseaseful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• feudalises