Pest

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An annoying person or thing; a nuisance.
  • n. An injurious plant or animal, especially one harmful to humans.
  • n. A deadly epidemic disease; a pestilence.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A plague, pestilence, epidemic
  • n. An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
  • n. An annoying person.
  • n. Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
  • n. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Plague; pestilence; a deadly epidemic disease.
  • n. Any very noxious, mischievous, or destructive thing, or a mischievous, destructive, very annoying, or troublesome person.
  • n. Synonyms Infection.
  • n. Scourge, nuisance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • n. a persistently annoying person
  • n. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
  • n. any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    disease    tin pest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pestilence    nuisance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Best    Blessed    Brest    Celeste    Este    Midwest    Test    West    abreast    acquiesced   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    insect    mosquito    vermin    bug    flea    rodent    parasite    louse    cockroach    nuisance