public 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”

   Synonymscommon nuisance

   Broadernuisance

Questions about public nuisance

What does public nuisance mean?

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

What is another word for public nuisance?

Close synonyms include common 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 public nuisance a common word?

public 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.