pest - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• pest

More generic

• animal
• animate being
• beast
• brute
• creature
• fauna

More specific

• vermin

Noun

a persistently annoying person

Synonyms

• blighter
• cuss
• gadfly
• pest
• pesterer

More generic

• persecutor
• tormenter
• tormentor

More specific

• nudnick
• nudnik

Noun

any epidemic disease with a high death rate

Synonyms

• pest
• pestilence
• plague

More generic

• epidemic disease

Noun

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

• pest
• pestilence
• pestis
• plague

More generic

• epidemic disease

More specific

• bubonic plague
• glandular plague
• pestis bubonica
• plague pneumonia
• pneumonic plague
• pulmonic plague
• septicemic plague

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