Thesaurus:pester

Thesaurus

pester

English

Verb

Sense: to annoy persistently

Synonyms

• badger
• bait
• bedevil
• beleaguer
• beset (figurative)
• chevy (figurative)
• give someone grief (idiomatic)
• harass
• harry
• hound
• pester
• pick at (idiomatic)
• plague
• vex    [⇒ thesaurus] (now rare)

Antonyms

• get out of someone's ear (slang)
• get out of someone's face (often imperative)
• get up off (AAVE, slang)
• give someone a break (idiomatic)
• leave alone
• let alone
• lay off    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ----
• tolerate    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• bepester
• cyberharass
• heckle
• overharass
• sexually harass
• troll

Hypernyms

• annoy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vex    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• pick on

Further reading

• “830. painfulness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “907. malevolence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “pester” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.