bug-ridden

adjective

Full of defects.

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Meanings

adjectivebug-ridden (comparative more bug-ridden, superlative most bug-ridden)

comparative more bug-ridden · superlative most bug-ridden

  1. Full of defects.

    Bug-ridden codes cannot be trusted to yield good science, or even safe science. So beware! Quirky codes are really bug-ridden codes, except that the bugs are alive and well and you are the intended victims.

    2005, Stan Openshaw, Ian Turton, High Performance Computing and the Art of Parallel Programming […] , Routledge, →ISBN
  2. Full of insects.

    In the capital of the Reich, in the city of the “illustrious Führer” of all places, in the largest prison in Germany, everything was filthy, bug-ridden, and filled with lice.

    2000, Hester Baer, transl., The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, Wayne State University Press, translation of original by Nanda Herbermann, →ISBN, page 106

Origin

From bug + -ridden.

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APA

bug-ridden. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bug-ridden

MLA

“bug-ridden.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bug-ridden. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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