Thesaurus / festering
FEEDBACKsynonyms for festering
synonyms for festering
- corrupt
- disgusting
- moldy
- noxious
- overripe
- putrid
- rancid
- rotting
- sour
- spoiled
- stale
- bad
- bad-smelling
- corroded
- crumbled
- crumbling
- decomposed
- decomposing
- disintegrated
- disintegrating
- fecal
- feculent
- fetid
- foul
- gross
- infected
- loathsome
- loud
- mephitic
- noisome
- offensive
- perished
- polluted
- purulent
- pustular
- putrescent
- putrified
- rank
- smelling
- stinking
- strong
- tainted
- touched
- unsound
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to festering, such as: fevered, infected, irritated, sore, swollen, and blistered.
How to use festering in a sentence
The sanitary effect upon the festering disputes of our time would be incalculably great.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLSHe carries a strange, festering sore within him and that poisons his whole blood.
KARI THE ELEPHANTDHAN GOPAL MUKERJITo have a festering wound and to be able to show the wound to no surgeon, is wretchedness indeed!
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEHe's just a basketful of festering, pestilent corruption, provided for the support and entertainment of microbes.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEI have kept my singularly repulsive infirmity of body, and to it I have added a mind festering with foul memories.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALETBut I carried also a portentously swollen under-lip, with a crack in it which showed signs of festering.
THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY REVELSIR ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCHIs it through such instrumentality you would bring home the Church's message to proud and festering humanity?
THE YOUNG PRIEST'S KEEPSAKEMICHAEL PHELANThe preaching of Wycliffe probed still deeper the festering corruption of the dominant Church.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 18, NO. 109, NOVEMBER, 1866VARIOUSI would give life-interest in rotten house property short shrift by burning the festering places.
LONDON'S UNDERWORLDTHOMAS HOLMESDr. Surtaine eyed with disfavor the festering tenement indicated.
THE CLARIONSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSWORDS RELATED TO FESTERING
- bad
- bad-smelling
- corroded
- corrupt
- crumbled
- crumbling
- decomposed
- decomposing
- disgusting
- disintegrated
- disintegrating
- fecal
- feculent
- festering
- fetid
- foul
- gross
- infected
- loathsome
- loud
- mephitic
- moldy
- noisome
- noxious
- offensive
- overripe
- perished
- polluted
- purulent
- pustular
- putrescent
- putrid
- putrified
- rancid
- rank
- rotting
- smelling
- sour
- spoiled
- stale
- stinking
- strong
- tainted
- touched
- unsound
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.