Synonyms for pest
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pest |
| Phonetic Transcription : pɛst |
Top 10 synonyms for pest Other synonyms for the word pest
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for pest
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