Definition of pest Pest

/pɛˈst/ - [pest] - Pest

We found 14 definitions of pest from 6 different sources.

What does pest mean?

Noun Plural: pests
pest - a persistently annoying person
		blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly
		persecutor, tormenter, tormentor a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
pest - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
		animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
pest - any epidemic disease with a high death rate
		plague, pestilence
		epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
pest - 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
		plague, pestilence, pestis
		epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people
		bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person
		plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever

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pest (Noun)
A plague, pestilence, epidemic.
pest (Noun)
An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
pest (Noun)
An annoying person.
pest (Noun)
Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers disinterested women.

pest (n.)
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
pest (n.)
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.

pest
Any unwanted insect or other organism that attacks and damages crops, reduces the fertility of land or injures or irritates livestock or people.
pest
A persistently annoying person.

pest
pest, n. a deadly disease: a plague: anything destructive: a troublesome person.—n. Pest′house, a hospital for persons afflicted with any contagious disease.—adj. Pestif′erous, contagious: pestilent: annoying.—adv. Pestif′erously.—n. Pest′ilence, any contagious deadly disease: anything that is hurtful to the morals.—adjs. Pest′ilent, producing pestilence: hurtful to health and life: mischievous: corrupt: troublesome; Pestilen′tial, of the nature of pestilence: producing pestilence: destructive.—advs. Pestilen′tially, Pest′ilently. [Fr. peste—L. pestis, a contagious disease.]

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