The difference between Nuisance and Pest

When used as nouns, nuisance means a minor annoyance or inconvenience, whereas pest means a plague, pestilence, epidemic.


check bellow for the other definitions of Nuisance and Pest

  1. Nuisance as a noun:

    A minor annoyance or inconvenience.

  2. Nuisance as a noun:

    A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.

  3. Nuisance as a noun (legal):

    Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.

    Examples:

    "a public nuisance"

  1. Pest as a noun (originally):

    A plague, pestilence, epidemic

  2. Pest as a noun:

    Any destructive insect or caterpillar that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.

  3. Pest as a noun:

    An annoying person, a nuisance.

  4. Pest as a noun:

    An invasive weed.