Dictionary of English language
ABC-Word.com
We will find the definition for any word
We can help you solve a crossword puzzle

Defenition of the word pest

    • Defenition of the word pest

      • Any unwanted insect or other organism that attacks and damages crops, reduces the fertility of land or injures or irritates livestock or people.
      • A persistently annoying person.
      • a persistently annoying person
      • any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
      • any epidemic disease with a high death rate
      • 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 for the word pest

      • annoyance
      • bane of your existence
      • blighter
      • bother
      • bug
      • creepy-crawly
      • cuss
      • fly
      • gadfly
      • insect
      • mosquito
      • nuisance
      • pain in the neck
      • pesterer
      • vermin

    Similar words in the pest

      • pest
      • pest's
      • pester
      • pestered
      • pestering
      • pesters
      • pesticide
      • pesticide's
      • pesticides
      • pestilence
      • pestilence's
      • pestilences
      • pestilent
      • pestle
      • pestle's
      • pestled
      • pestles
      • pestling
      • pests

    Hyponyms for the word pest

      • bubonic plague
      • glandular plague
      • nudnick
      • nudnik
      • pestis bubonica
      • plague pneumonia
      • pneumonic plague
      • pulmonic plague
      • septicemic plague
      • vermin

    Hypernyms for the word pest

      • animal
      • animate being
      • beast
      • brute
      • creature
      • epidemic disease
      • fauna
      • persecutor
      • tormenter
      • tormentor

    See other words