common nuisance

1. 1.

   a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public

   “a public nuisance offends the public at large”

   Synonymspublic nuisance

   Broadernuisance

Questions about common nuisance

What does common nuisance mean?

common nuisance means "a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public".

What is another word for common nuisance?

Close synonyms include public nuisance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common nuisance a common word?

common nuisance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.