Dictionary Definition
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛst
Noun
- An annoying, often destructive creature.
- A person who is annoying.
- Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers
disinterested women.
- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!
Translations
Annoying person
- Danish: plage, plageånd, pestilens
- Finnish: maanvaiva, kiusankappale, kiusanhenki
Related terms
Croatian
Noun
Declension
Danish
Noun
pestSlovene
Noun
pest fSwedish
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Extensive Definition
Pest may refer to:
- Pest, an archaic term for pestilence, specifically the Black death
- Pest (hockey), an ice hockey player specialising in aggravating opponents
- Pest (music), a British music group
- Pest (organism), a characteristically undesirable animal or insect
- The Pest (1917 film), a 1917 film starring Oliver Hardy
- The Pest (1997 film), a 1997 film starring John Leguizamo
- PEST analysis (Political, Economic, Social and Technological), a framework for analysis of macroenvironmental factors
- An annoyance
Places with the name Pest:
pest in German: Pest (Begriffsklärung)
pest in Esperanto: Pest
pest in Dutch: Pest
pest in Norwegian: Pest (peker)
pest in Polish: Pest
pest in Simple English: Pest
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affliction, aggravation, ambulatory
plague, annoyance,
annoyer, bad news,
badgerer, bane, bedevilment, besetment, black death, black
plague, blast, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bubonic
plague, bugbear,
bully, burden, buttonholer, calamity, cancer, canker, cellulocutaneous plague,
crashing bore, crushing burden, curse, death, defervescing plague,
destruction,
devilment, difficulty, disease, dogging, downer, drag, drip, dry rot, dryasdust, dusty, epidemic, epiphytotic, epizootic, evil, exasperation, flat tire,
frightful bore, fungus,
gadfly, glandular plague,
grievance, harasser, harassment, harm, harrier, harrying, headache, heckler, hemorrhagic plague,
hounding, humdrum, infliction, irritant, larval plague,
mildew, mold, molestation, moth, moth and rust, murrain, must, nag, nemesis, nudnik, nudzh, nuisance, open wound, pandemia, pandemic, persecution, persecutor, pester, pesterer, pesthole, pestilence, pill, plague, plague spot, plaguer, pneumonic plague,
premonitory plague, problem, proser, rot, running sore, rust, sadist, scourge, septicemic plague,
siderating plague, smut,
tease, teaser, thorn, torment, tormentor, trial, trouble, tuberculosis, twaddler, vexation, vexatiousness, visitation, wet blanket,
white plague, woe, worm, worriment, worry