Synonyms for pest

Synonyms for (noun) pest

Synonyms: pest

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

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

Similar words: animal, animate being, beast, fauna, brute, creature

Definition: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement


Synonyms: pest, pesterer, cuss, gadfly, blighter

Definition: a persistently annoying person

Similar words: tormenter, tormentor, persecutor

Definition: someone who torments


Synonyms: pest, pestilence, plague

Definition: any epidemic disease with a high death rate

Similar words: epidemic disease

Definition: any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people


Synonyms: pest, pestilence, pestis, plague

Definition: 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

Similar words: epidemic disease

Definition: any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people


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