Definition for Insect:

• A small animal, being one of a class of articulated animals, with a body composed of three distinct parts, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen; anything small or contemptible.

Synonyms for Insect:

• n.

  •
  • arachnid,
  • adult,
  • biped,
  • big game,
  • bear,
  • beast of burden.
  •animal (noun)
  • bird,
  • mammal,
  • reptile,
  • ruminant,
  • insect,
  • amphibian,
  • invertebrate,
  • carnivore,
  • herbivore,
  • fish,
  • livestock,
  • canine,
  • brute,
  • wildlife,
  • vermin,
  • animal,
  • marsupial,
  • feline.
  •bug (noun)
  • bristletail,
  • stinkbug,
  • katydid,
  • butterfly,
  • grasshopper,
  • beetle,
  • alder fly,
  • seventeen-year locust,
  • fruit fly,
  • leaf insect,
  • cootie,
  • ichneumon fly,
  • dragonfly,
  • scarab,
  • spider,
  • cicada,
  • honeybee,
  • firefly,
  • hornet,
  • gnat,
  • moth,
  • ladybug,
  • Japanese Beetle,
  • silverfish,
  • scorpion fly,
  • darning needle,
  • mantis,
  • fly,
  • wasp,
  • caddis-fly,
  • yellowjacket,
  • cricket,
  • praying mantis,
  • bumblebee,
  • True Fly,
  • mealy wing,
  • sawfly,
  • potato bug,
  • walking stick,
  • boll weevil,
  • corn borer,
  • aphid,
  • louse,
  • daddy longlegs,
  • thrips,
  • yellow jacket,
  • earwig,
  • cockroach,
  • bee,
  • springtail,
  • arthropod,
  • may fly,
  • plant bug,
  • ant lion,
  • stone fly,
  • millipede,
  • lacewing,
  • scale insect,
  • caterpillar.
  •dirt ball (noun)
  • dirt ball.
  •vermin (noun)
  • mices,
  • lices.
  •worm (noun)
  • worm.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pest,
  • bug.
  •
  • tick.

Paraphrases for Insect:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    pest.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    pest.

Antonyms for Insect:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    eminence, authority, magnate, head, figure, great power.

Insect Sentence Examples:

• But as it came nearer he perceived that it grew larger and brighter, and moved from side to side with more regularity than was probable with an insect, and at length he saw that it was a smouldering torch held by a native, who was waving it to and fro to cause a flame.

• The whole small - insect world seemed to be represented here.

Holonyms for Insect:

• n.

  • animal
    arthropoda, cloud, Phylum Arthropoda, swarm.

Hypernym for Insect:

• n.

  • animal
    dipteran, Heteropterous Insect, stone fly, hemipteran, thysanopteron, odonate, white ant, hymenopteron, telsontail, thysanuron, collembolan, Hemipterous Insect, ephemeral, lepidopteron, leaf-miner, two-winged insects, hymenopteran, dipteron, earwig, proturan, trichopteron, plecopteran, beetle, termite, flea, ephemeropteran, neuropteron, pollinator, web spinner, Neuropterous Insect, ephemerid, neuropteran, stonefly, defoliator, bug, thysanopter, bird louse, Phasmid Insect, Holometabola, lepidopteran, mecopteran, sucking louse, Hymenopterous Insect, Thysanuran Insect, social insect, Orthopterous Insect, trichopteran, Thysanopterous Insect, phasmid, pupa, Dictyopterous Insect, hymenopter, homopterous insect, hemipteron, Metabola, leaf miner, gallfly, biting louse, Ephemeron, Trichopterous Insect, worker, imago, louse, dipterous insect, homopteran, springtail, Psocopterous Insect, orthopteran, Lepidopterous Insect, orthopteron, queen.

Hyponym for Insect:

• n.

  • animal
    arthropod.

Meronym for Insect:

• n.

  • animal
    ala, air sac, wing, thorax, clypeus, mentum.