Definition for Pest:

• The plague, q. v.

Synonyms for Pest:

• n.

  •
  • germ,
  • virus,
  • irritation,
  • disease,
  • calamity.
  •
  • crybaby,
  • fidget,
  • kid,
  • brat,
  • kiddie,
  • kiddy,
  • mite,
  • vexation,
  • brood,
  • monkey,
  • annoyance.
  •animal (noun)
  • pest.
  •bane (noun)
  • fatal attraction.
  •blight (noun)
  • de-cays,
  • blot landscape,
  • de cay,
  • de cays,
  • de-cay,
  • blot the landscape.
  •blighter (noun)
  • blighter.
  •bore (noun)
  • nag,
  • wimp,
  • deadheads,
  • dull people,
  • dull person,
  • deadhead,
  • flat tire,
  • tedious person,
  • tiresome person.
  •bother (noun)
  • dis-tress,
  • worriments,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis tress.
  •bully (noun)
  • coercers,
  • in-solents,
  • in solents,
  • in-solent,
  • in solent.
  •cuss (noun)
  • cuss.
  •epidemic (noun)
  • endemics,
  • what's going around.
  •exasperation (noun)
  • dis pleasure,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis pleasures.
  •headache (noun)
  • in conveniences,
  • in-conveniences,
  • head-ache,
  • in-convenience.
  •pain in the neck (noun)
  • pain in the butt,
  • pain in the rear,
  • nudnik.
  •peeve (noun)
  • sore points.
  •person or thing that presents problem (noun)
  • botheration,
  • tormentor,
  • pestilence,
  • pesterer,
  • curse,
  • crashing bore,
  • Besetment,
  • blister,
  • bore,
  • contagion,
  • creep,
  • badgerer,
  • infection,
  • drip,
  • nudge,
  • irritant,
  • tease.
  •plague (noun)
  • thorn side.
  •scourge (noun)
  • mis fortunes,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • mis fortune.
  •state (noun)
  • pestis.
  •torment (noun)
  • excruciations,
  • pro vocations,
  • pro-vocations,
  • pro vocation.
  •trial (noun)
  • cross bear,
  • calvaries,
  • trying times,
  • severe tests,
  • un-happinesses,
  • un happinesses,
  • un-happiness.
  •trouble (noun)
  • dis order,
  • un-rests,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis content,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis-cords,
  • un rest,
  • dis quiets,
  • dis-content,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis-order,
  • dis orders,
  • dis-quiets,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis cord,
  • un-rest,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis contents,
  • dis quiet,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis cords,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis-quiet.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • joke,
  • rat,
  • menace,
  • creepy-crawly,
  • bug.
  •
  • pinprick,
  • tick,
  • crawler.
  •
  • worm.

Paraphrases for Pest:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    pest-control.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    vermin, pestilence.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    mosquito, phyto-sanitary, plant-health, deleterious, devastating, phytosanitary, stray.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Lice, phytosanitary, parasitic.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Lice, scourge, phytosanitary, bug.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    insect, parasite, parasitic.
  • Proper noun, singular
    parasite, parasites, Pesticides.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    insect, infestation, parasite, blight, parasitic.
  • Interjection
    bugs.

Antonyms for Pest:

• n.

  • person or thing that presents problem
    blessing, boon, happiness, help, peace, advantage, aid, comfort, good health.
  • Other antonyms:
    comforter, charmer, joy, delight, Soother, pleasure, smoothy.

Pest Sentence Examples:

• So what's the use of behaving like the Pest?

• A solemn promise was also made " to anyone who has the heart to free us of this pest, and who will deliver him dead or alive, or take his life, the sum of 25, 000 crowns in gold or in estates for himself and his heirs; and we will pardon him any crimes of which he has been guilty, and give him a patent of nobility, if he be not noble."

Hypernym for Pest:

• n.

  • animal
    vermin.
  • state
    pneumonic plague, bubonic plague, Pulmonic Plague, Septicemic Plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague, plague pneumonia.

Hyponym for Pest:

• n.

  • animal
    fauna, animal, beast, brute, creature, animate being.
  • state
    epidemic disease.