Synonyms for pest
pɛstpest

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1. pestnoun

   Synonyms:
   bug

2. pestnoun

   A plague, pestilence, epidemic

   Synonyms:
   bug

3. pestnoun

   An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.

   Synonyms:
   bug

4. pestnoun

   An annoying person.

   Synonyms:
   bug

5. pestnoun

   Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.

   Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!

   Synonyms:
   bug

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1. pest

   Synonyms:
   plague, nuisance, curse, annoyance, blight, bone, scourge

   Antonyms:
   benefit, blessing, acquisition

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1. plague, pestilence, pest, pestisnoun

   a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

   Synonyms:
   pesterer, canker, infestation, pestilence, pestis, gadfly, plague, cuss, blighter

2. plague, pestilence, pestnoun

   any epidemic disease with a high death rate

   Synonyms:
   pesterer, canker, infestation, pestilence, pestis, gadfly, plague, cuss, blighter

3. pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadflynoun

   a persistently annoying person

   Synonyms:
   pesterer, feller, expletive, lad, swearing, curse word, bloke, oath, pestilence, pestis, blighter, gent, gadfly, cuss, chap, curse, swearword, fellow, plague, fella

4. pestnoun

   any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

   "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"

   Synonyms:
   gadfly, cuss, plague, pestilence, blighter, pesterer, pestis

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Epidemic Disease
   • Tormentor

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. pestnoun

   Synonyms:
   plague, pestilence, infection, fatal epidemic, infectious disease

2. pestnoun

   Synonyms:
   contamination, poison, taint, bane, scourge, curse, infliction, nuisance, great annoyance

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1. pestnoun

   Synonyms:
   pestilence, plague, scourge, curse, nuisance, annoyance, infliction, bane

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1. List of paraphrases for "pest":

   pests, parasite, fjst, parasites, phytosanitary, parasitic, plague, vermin, insect, harmful, plant-health, beetle, bug

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1. List of known nicknames for "Pest":

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1. Jack Holland:

   Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

2. George Amato:

   This is an enormous new tool for researchers interested in controlling this pest, bed bugs are now very widespread in most major cities around the world, and they have increasingly become resistant to insecticides, making them harder to control.

3. Franklin P. Adams:

   I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

4. James Ramsey:

   I am a little long in the tooth to be dressed up like some forest elf crawling around stalking 'hogs but it is just as fun as I remembered it,' i have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground.

5. Neil Morrison:

   This research is opening new doors for the future of farming with pest control methods that are non-toxic and pesticide-free.