pustulent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pustulent (comparative more pustulent, superlative most pustulent)
- Filled or oozing with pus.
- a pustulent sore
- 1994, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain[1], →ISBN, page 114:
- 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.
- Alternative spelling of pustulant, "producing pustules"