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pest vs beast

beast vs pest

pest and beast both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pest Yes No No No
beast Yes No No No
As nouns, beast is a hypernym of pest; that is, beast is a word with a broader meaning than pest:
  • pest: any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.
  • beast: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Other hypernyms of pest include animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna.
pest (noun) beast (noun)
any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
a persistently annoying person a cruelly rapacious person
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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
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