Antonyms for pest

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pest

Phonetic Transcription : pɛst

Definition of pest

Origin : 1550s (in imprecations, "a pest upon ____," etc.), "plague, pestilence," from Middle French peste (1530s), from Latin pestis "deadly contagious disease; a curse, bane," of uncertain origin. Meaning "noxious or troublesome person or thing" first recorded c.1600.

noun person or thing that presents problem

Example sentences :

He passed on unsuspected and deadly, like a pest in the street full of men.
Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad

She is a demon now, and the pest of married women and their babies.'
Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald

Thus he kept it up for years, and was a pest throughout the neighborhood.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

And then that pest of an office boy began shouting his name.
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Two methods of control have been developed to keep this pest under.
Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick

To us they are as vermin, a pest upon the face of the earth.
Extract from : « The Traitors » by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The Pest Maiden arrives, and thrusts her arm in at his window.
Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston

Why did she sigh so deeply when she said, 'I don't fancy we shall go to Pest'?
Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai

But no, she did not betray herself; she merely said, "I don't fancy we shall go to Pest."
Extract from : « A Hungarian Nabob » by Maurus Jkai

Fig. 150 shows a view of a branch nearly covered with this pest.
Extract from : « Agriculture for Beginners » by Charles William Burkett

Synonyms for pest

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