Synonyms for Pester:

adj.
• infest
- Crowder
- Teemer
- crawler
- filler
- flocker
- harrier
- over spread
- overspread
- packer
- swarmer
- worrier
- Presser
- infect
- teem
n.
- threaten
- feelings
- pain
- attack
• nuisance
- botherment
- head ache
- pesterer
- pesterers
- poor excuse
v.
• aggravate
- envenom
• annoy
- asked for it
- asking for it
- asks for it
- be devil
- be deviled
- be deviling
- be devilled
- be devilling
- be devils
- be-devil
- be-deviled
- be-deviling
- be-devilled
- be-devilling
- be-devils
- burns up
- burnt up
- dis please
- dis pleased
- dis pleases
- dis pleasing
- dis-please
- dis-pleased
- dis-pleases
- dis-pleasing
- firing up
- heating up
- hit where lives
- hits where lives
- hits where one lives
- hitting where lives
- hitting where one lives
- made waves
- making waves
- pushed button
- pushes button
- pushing button
- t off
- t offed
- t offing
- t offs
- t-offed
- t-offing
- t-offs
- ticking off
- ticks off
- toffed
- toffing
- works on
- wrought on
• badger
- gave business
- gave the business
- give business
- gives business
- gives the business
- giving business
- giving the business
- insisted on
- insisting on
- insists on
• beleaguer
- be leaguer
- be leaguered
- be leaguering
- be leaguers
- be-leaguer
- be-leaguered
- be-leaguering
- be-leaguers
- put up on
- puts up on
- puts upon
- putting up on
- putting upon
- set up on
- sets up on
- setting up on
- setting upon
• beset
- be sets
- be setting
- be-set
- be-sets
- be-setting
- fall up on
- falling on
- falling up on
- falling upon
- falls on
- falls up on
- falls upon
- fell up on
- gave a bad time
- gave bad time
- gave needle
- gave one business
- gave one the business
- gave the needle
- give bad time
- give needle
- give one business
- gives a bad time
- gives bad time
- gives needle
- gives one business
- gives one the business
- gives the needle
- giving a bad time
- giving bad time
- giving needle
- giving one business
- giving one the business
- giving the needle
- jump case
- jump on case
- jump on one case
- jump on ones case
- jump one case
- jump one's case
- jump ones case
- jumped case
- jumped on case
- jumped on one case
- jumped on one's case
- jumped on ones case
- jumped one case
- jumped one's case
- jumped ones case
- jumping case
- jumping on case
- jumping on one case
- jumping on one's case
- jumping on ones case
- jumping one case
- jumping one's case
- jumping ones case
- jumps case
- jumps on case
- jumps on one case
- jumps on one's case
- jumps on ones case
- jumps one case
- jumps one's case
- jumps ones case
- over run
- over running
- over runs
- over-running
- puts squeeze on
- puts the squeeze on
- putting squeeze on
- putting the squeeze on
- started in on
- started on
- starting in on
- starting on
- starts in on
- starts on
- sur rounded
- sur rounding
- sur-rounded
- sur-rounding
• besiege
- be siege
- be sieged
- be sieges
- be sieging
- be-siege
- be-sieged
- be-sieges
- be-sieging
• bombard
- fire up on
- fired up on
- fires up on
- fires upon
- firing up on
- firing upon
- opened fire
- opening fire
- opens fire
• bore
- am tedious
- are tedious
- art tedious
- being tedious
- bend ear
- bend one ear
- bend ones ear
- bended ear
- bended one ear
- bended one's ear
- bended ones ear
- bending ear
- bending one ear
- bending one's ear
- bending ones ear
- bends ear
- bends one ear
- bends one's ear
- bends ones ear
- bent ear
- bent one ear
- bent one's ear
- bent ones ear
- dis comfort
- dis comforted
- dis comforting
- dis comforts
- dis-comfort
- dis-comforted
- dis-comforting
- dis-comforts
- is tedious
- put sleep
- puts sleep
- putting sleep
- send sleep
- sending sleep
- sending to sleep
- sends sleep
- sends to sleep
- sent sleep
- talk ear off
- talk one ear off
- talk ones ear off
- talked ear off
- talked one ear off
- talked one's ear off
- talked ones ear off
- talking ear off
- talking one ear off
- talking one's ear off
- talking ones ear off
- talks ear off
- talks one ear off
- talks one's ear off
- talks ones ear off
- turned one off
- turning one off
- turns one off
- was tedious
- wast tedious
- were tedious
- wert tedious
• bother
- carped at
- carping at
- carps at
- dis commode
- dis commodes
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis gust
- dis gusted
- dis gusting
- dis gusts
- dis may
- dis mayed
- dis maying
- dis mays
- dis-commode
- dis-commodes
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- dis-gust
- dis-gusted
- dis-gusting
- dis-gusts
- dis-may
- dis-mayed
- dis-maying
- dis-mays
- ex acerbate
- ex acerbated
- ex acerbates
- ex acerbating
- ex-acerbate
- ex-acerbated
- ex-acerbates
- ex-acerbating
- grated on
- grates on
- grating on
- in convenience
- in conveniences
- in-convenience
- in-conveniences
- intrude up on
- intruded up on
- intruded upon
- intrudes up on
- intrudes upon
- intruding up on
- intruding upon
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
• bug
- gat on someone
- gat someone
- gets on someone
- gets someone
- getting on someone
- getting someone
- got on someone
- got someone
- gotten on someone
- gotten someone
• butt in
- bursted in
- bursting in
- bursts in
- charged in
- charges in
- charging in
- chiseled in
- chiseling in
- chiselled in
- chiselling in
- chisels in
- gat in to act
- gat in to the act
- gat into act
- gat into the act
- get in to act
- get in to the act
- get into act
- gets in to act
- gets in to the act
- gets into act
- gets into the act
- getting in to act
- getting in to the act
- getting into act
- getting into the act
- got in to act
- got in to the act
- got into act
- got into the act
- gotten in to act
- gotten in to the act
- gotten into act
- gotten into the act
- muscled in
- muscles in
- muscling in
- poke face in
- poke one face in
- poke ones face in
- poked face in
- poked one face in
- poked one's face in
- poked ones face in
- pokes face in
- pokes one face in
- pokes one's face in
- pokes ones face in
- poking face in
- poking one face in
- poking one's face in
- poking ones face in
- put one two cents in
- put ones two cents in
- puts one two cents in
- puts one's two cents in
- puts ones two cents in
- puts two cents in
- putting one two cents in
- putting one's two cents in
- putting ones two cents in
- putting two cents in
• coax
- argue in to
- argued in to
- argued into
- argues in to
- argues into
- arm twist
- arm twisted
- arm twisting
- arm twists
- arm-twisted
- arm-twists
- armtwist
- armtwisted
- armtwisting
- armtwists
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- co axed
- co axing
- co-axed
- co-axing
- de coy
- de coyed
- de coying
- de coys
- de-coy
- de-coyed
- de-coying
- de-coys
- in duce
- in duces
- in-duce
- in-duces
- prevail up on
- prevails upon
- ropes in
- roping in
- soft soaped
- soft soaping
- soft-soaps
- softsoap
- softsoaped
- softsoaping
- softsoaps
- talk in to
- talked in to
- talked into
- talking in to
- talking into
- talks in to
- talks into
• demand
- Impetrated
- Impetrating
- be sought
- be-sought
- clamored for
- clamoring for
- clamors for
- counter claim
- counter claimed
- counter claiming
- counter claims
- counter-claimed
- counter-claiming
- counter-claims
- ex act
- ex acting
- ex acts
- ex-act
- ex-acted
- ex-acting
- ex-acts
- hits up
- hitting up
- impetrates
- in quire
- in quired
- in quires
- in quiring
- in-quire
- in-quired
- in-quires
- in-quiring
- re quested
- re questing
- re quests
- re quire
- re quired
- re quires
- re quiring
- re-questing
- re-quests
- re-quire
- re-quired
- re-quires
- re-quiring
- sued for
- sues for
- suing for
- whistled for
- whistles for
- whistling for
• discompose
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis compose
- dis composed
- dis composes
- dis composing
- dis organize
- dis organized
- dis organizes
- dis organizing
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- dis-compose
- dis-composed
- dis-composes
- dis-composing
- dis-organize
- dis-organized
- dis-organizes
- dis-organizing
- un hinge
- un hinged
- un hinges
- un hinging
- un settle
- un settled
- un settles
- un settling
- un-hinge
- un-hinged
- un-hinges
- un-hinging
- un-settle
- un-settled
- un-settles
- un-settling
• disquiet
- dis quiet
- dis quieted
- dis quieting
- dis quiets
- dis-quiet
- dis-quieted
- dis-quieting
- dis-quiets
- in commode
- in commodes
- in-commode
- in-commodes
• distress
- am case
- am on case
- am on one case
- am on one's case
- am on ones case
- am one case
- am one's case
- am ones case
- are case
- are on case
- are on one case
- are on one's case
- are on ones case
- are one case
- are one's case
- are ones case
- art case
- art one's case
- art ones case
- be case
- be on case
- be on one case
- be on ones case
- be one case
- be one's case
- be ones case
- being case
- being on case
- being on one case
- being on one's case
- being on ones case
- being one case
- being one's case
- being ones case
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de solate
- de solated
- de solates
- de solating
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- de-solate
- de-solated
- de-solates
- de-solating
- did a number on
- did number on
- didst a number on
- didst number on
- dis tress
- dis tressed
- dis tresses
- dis-tress
- dis-tressed
- dis-tresses
- does a number on
- does number on
- doest a number on
- doest number on
- doeth a number on
- doeth number on
- doing a number on
- doing number on
- dost a number on
- dost number on
- doth a number on
- doth number on
- is case
- is on case
- is on one case
- is on one's case
- is on ones case
- is one case
- is one's case
- is ones case
- made it tough for
- made tough for
- make tough for
- makes it tough for
- makes tough for
- making it tough for
- making tough for
- nit pick
- nit picked
- nit picking
- nit picks
- nit-picked
- nit-picks
- pushed buttons
- pushes buttons
- pushing buttons
- was case
- was on case
- was on one case
- was on one's case
- was on ones case
- was one case
- was one's case
- was ones case
- wast case
- wast on case
- wast on one case
- wast on one's case
- wast on ones case
- wast one case
- wast one's case
- wast ones case
- were case
- were on case
- were on one case
- were on one's case
- were on ones case
- were one case
- were one's case
- were ones case
- wert case
- wert on case
- wert on one case
- wert on one's case
- wert on ones case
- wert one case
- wert one's case
- wert ones case
• disturb
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
- ex cite
- ex cited
- ex cites
- ex citing
- ex-cite
- ex-cited
- ex-cites
- inter fere
- inter feres
- inter-fere
- inter-feres
- made uneasy
- makes uneasy
- making uneasy
- out raged
- out rages
- out raging
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
- un nerve
- un nerved
- un nerves
- un nerving
- un-nerve
- un-nerves
- un-nerving
• entreat
- appealing to
- appeals to
• gall
- in flame
- in flamed
- in flaming
- in-flame
- in-flamed
- in-flames
• get under one's skin
- get under one skin
- get under ones skin
- push one buttons
- push ones buttons
- pushed one buttons
- pushed one's buttons
- pushed ones buttons
- pushes one buttons
- pushes one's buttons
- pushes ones buttons
- pushing one buttons
- pushing one's buttons
- pushing ones buttons
• gnaw
- be league
- be leagued
- be leagues
- be leaguing
- be-league
- be-leagued
- be-leagues
- be-leaguing
- beleagued
- beleagues
- beleaguing
- eating at
- prey mind
- prey on mind
- prey on one mind
- prey on ones mind
- prey one mind
- prey one's mind
- prey ones mind
- preyed mind
- preyed on mind
- preyed on one mind
- preyed on one's mind
- preyed on ones mind
- preyed one mind
- preyed one's mind
- preyed ones mind
- preying mind
- preying on mind
- preying on one mind
- preying on one's mind
- preying on ones mind
- preying one mind
- preying one's mind
- preying ones mind
- preys mind
- preys on mind
- preys on one mind
- preys on one's mind
- preys on ones mind
- preys one mind
- preys one's mind
- preys ones mind
• harass
- de spoil
- de spoiled
- de spoiling
- de spoils
- de-spoil
- de-spoiled
- de-spoiling
- de-spoils
- jerking around
- jerks around
- noodged
- noodging
- rattle cage
- rattle one cage
- rattle ones cage
- rattled cage
- rattled one cage
- rattled one's cage
- rattled ones cage
- rattles cage
- rattles one cage
- rattles one's cage
- rattles ones cage
- rattling cage
- rattling one cage
- rattling one's cage
- rattling ones cage
• harp on
- dwell up on
- harp up on
- harped up on
- harped upon
- harping up on
- harping upon
- harps up on
- harps upon
• hassle
- argufied
- argufies
• haunt
- Re-turn
- am ever present
- are ever present
- being ever present
- in habit
- in habited
- in habiting
- in habits
- in-habit
- in-habited
- in-habiting
- in-habits
- is ever present
- re appear
- re appeared
- re appearing
- re appears
- re curred
- re curring
- re turn
- re turning
- re turns
- re-appear
- re-appeared
- re-appearing
- re-appears
- re-curred
- re-curring
- re-turned
- re-turning
- re-turns
- staid with
- stayed with
- stays with
- was ever present
- wast ever present
- weighed on
- weighing on
- weighs on
- were ever present
- wert ever present
• heckle
- chivies
- dissed
- disses
- shouted at
- shouting at
- shouts at
• henpeck
- be rate
- be rated
- be rates
- be rating
- be-rate
- be-rated
- be-rates
- be-rating
• hound
- am back
- am on back
- am on one back
- am on one tail
- am on one's back
- am on one's tail
- am on ones back
- am on ones tail
- am on tail
- am one back
- am one tail
- am one's back
- am one's tail
- am ones back
- am ones tail
- am tail
- are back
- are on back
- are on one back
- are on one tail
- are on one's back
- are on one's tail
- are on ones back
- are on ones tail
- are on tail
- are one back
- are one tail
- are one's back
- are one's tail
- are ones back
- are ones tail
- are tail
- art back
- art one tail
- art one's back
- art one's tail
- art ones back
- art ones tail
- art tail
- be back
- be on back
- be on one back
- be on one tail
- be on ones back
- be on ones tail
- be on tail
- be one back
- be one tail
- be one's back
- be one's tail
- be ones back
- be ones tail
- be tail
- beat bushes
- being back
- being on back
- being on one back
- being on one tail
- being on one's back
- being on one's tail
- being on ones back
- being on ones tail
- being on tail
- being one back
- being one tail
- being one's back
- being one's tail
- being ones back
- being ones tail
- being tail
- birddog
- gave chase
- gives chase
- giving chase
- hunted down
- hunting down
- hunts down
- is back
- is on back
- is on one back
- is on one tail
- is on one's back
- is on one's tail
- is on ones back
- is on ones tail
- is on tail
- is one back
- is one tail
- is one's back
- is one's tail
- is ones back
- is ones tail
- is tail
- leaved no stone unturned
- leaves no stone unturned
- leaving no stone unturned
- left no stone unturned
- ragged on
- ragging on
- rags on
- scratched around
- scratches around
- scratching around
- searched high heaven
- searches high heaven
- searching high heaven
- takes out after
- taking out after
- took out after
- turning upside down
- turns inside out
- turns upside down
- was back
- was on back
- was on one back
- was on one tail
- was on one's back
- was on one's tail
- was on ones back
- was on ones tail
- was on tail
- was one back
- was one tail
- was one's back
- was one's tail
- was ones back
- was ones tail
- was tail
- wast back
- wast on back
- wast on one back
- wast on one tail
- wast on one's back
- wast on one's tail
- wast on ones back
- wast on ones tail
- wast on tail
- wast one back
- wast one tail
- wast one's back
- wast one's tail
- wast ones back
- wast ones tail
- wast tail
- were back
- were on back
- were on one back
- were on one tail
- were on one's back
- were on one's tail
- were on ones back
- were on ones tail
- were on tail
- were one back
- were one tail
- were one's back
- were one's tail
- were ones back
- were ones tail
- were tail
- wert back
- wert on back
- wert on one back
- wert on one tail
- wert on one's back
- wert on one's tail
- wert on ones back
- wert on ones tail
- wert on tail
- wert one back
- wert one tail
- wert one's back
- wert one's tail
- wert ones back
- wert ones tail
- wert tail
- yapped at
- yapping at
- yaps at
• intrude
- in fringe
- in fringed
- in fringes
- in sinuate
- in sinuated
- in sinuates
- in sinuating
- in-fringe
- in-fringed
- in-fringes
- in-sinuate
- in-sinuates
- in-sinuating
- inter lope
- inter loped
- inter lopes
- inter loping
- inter meddle
- inter meddled
- inter meddles
- inter meddling
- inter pose
- inter posed
- inter posing
- inter-lope
- inter-loped
- inter-lopes
- inter-loping
- inter-meddle
- inter-meddled
- inter-meddles
- inter-meddling
- inter-pose
- inter-posed
- inter-posing
- intro duce
- intro duces
- intro-duce
- intro-duces
- over stepped
- over stepping
- over steps
- over-stepped
- over-stepping
- over-steps
- pushed in
- pushes in
- pushing in
• irritate
- dis temper
- dis tempered
- dis tempering
- dis tempers
- dis-temper
- dis-tempered
- dis-tempering
- dis-tempers
- in cense
- in censed
- in censes
- in censing
- in-cense
- in-censed
- in-censes
- in-censing
• madden
- de range
- de ranged
- de ranges
- de ranging
- de-range
- de-ranged
- de-ranges
- de-ranging
- drave crazy
- drave distraction
- drave insane
- drave out mind
- drave out of mind
- drave to distraction
- drive distraction
- drive out mind
- drives crazy
- drives distraction
- drives insane
- drives out mind
- drives out of mind
- drives to distraction
- driving crazy
- driving distraction
- driving insane
- driving out mind
- driving out of mind
- driving to distraction
- drove crazy
- drove distraction
- drove insane
- drove out mind
- drove out of mind
- iring
- made see red
- makes see red
- making see red
- steams up
- umbraged
- umbraging
- un balance
- un balances
- un balancing
- un-balance
- un-balanced
- un-balances
- un-balancing
• miff
- re sent
- re sents
- re-sent
- re-sents
• nag
- finding fault
- finds fault
- found fault
- takes it out on
- takes out on
- taking it out on
- taking out on
- took it out on
- took out on
- up braid
- up braided
- up braids
- up-braid
- up-braided
- up-braiding
- up-braids
• nettle
- snitted
- snitting
Other synonyms:

•

press

•

make

•

pressure

•

force

Other relevant words:

• aggravate

• beleaguer

• beset

• besiege

• bore

• butt in

burst in
charge in
chisel in
get into the act
interject
muscle in
poke one's face in
put one's two cents in
put two cents in

• coax

• gall

• gnaw

• haunt

• heckle

• importune

goose
goosed
gooses
goosing

• irritate

• madden

• miff

miff
miffed

• needle

needling

• sweet-talk

Honeying
honied

• tantalize

keep hanging
make mouth water

• worry

• Other relevant words (adjective):

behaviour

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

What are the hypernyms for Pester?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
bother, harass, hassle, nag, plague, Importune.

What are the opposite words for pester?

The term 'pester' refers to the act of persistently annoying or bothering someone. However, there are several antonyms that can be used to describe the opposite of pestering behavior. A few examples of such antonyms include the words 'comfort,' 'soothe,' 'console,' and 'reassure.' Comfort and soothe imply that someone provides solace to another by aiding in their relaxation, while console and reassure suggest offering sympathy or encouragement to someone upset. Other antonyms may include 'ignore,' 'neglect,' and 'avoid.' These words imply that someone is disregarding or avoiding the person they would otherwise be pestering. By understanding antonyms of pestering, one can communicate more effectively and reduce the likelihood of annoying others.

What are the antonyms for Pester?

v.
• bother, harass
- aid
- appease
- assist
- calm
- comfort
- delight
- forget
- help
- make happy
- pacify
- please
- reassure
- soothe
• noun
- console
- content
- disregard
- ignore
- leave
- oblige
- slight
Other relevant words:

satisfy

Usage examples for Pester

You'll be quick to twig if he supposes the chance has come to pester you.

"The Devil's Garden"

W. B. Maxwell

Don' pester me when I studyin' to see which way he got out."

"Two Little Confederates"

Thomas Nelson Page

Yo' neen' pester yo' haid 'bout dat, suh!

"The Man from Jericho"

Edwin Carlile Litsey

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