| individual | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ causal agency, causal agent, cause | any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results. |
| ~ personality | the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" |
| ~ bod, chassis, human body, material body, physical body, anatomy, build, figure, flesh, physique, frame, shape, soma, form | alternative names for the body of a human being.; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ self | a person considered as a unique individual.; "one's own self" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| ~ adventurer, venturer | a person who enjoys taking risks. |
| ~ unusual person, anomaly | a person who is unusual. |
| ~ applicant, applier | a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission. |
| ~ appointee, appointment | a person who is appointed to a job or position. |
| ~ capitalist | a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business). |
| ~ captor, capturer | a person who captures and holds people or animals. |
| ~ changer, modifier | a person who changes something.; "an inveterate changer of the menu" |
| ~ color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue. |
| ~ common man, common person, commoner | a person who holds no title. |
| ~ communicator | a person who communicates with others. |
| ~ contestant | a person who participates in competitions. |
| ~ coward | a person who shows fear or timidity. |
| ~ creator | a person who grows or makes or invents things. |
| ~ controversialist, disputant, eristic | a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy. |
| ~ applied scientist, engineer, technologist | a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
| ~ entertainer | a person who tries to please or amuse. |
| ~ experimenter | a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas.; "she was an experimenter in new forms of poetry" |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| ~ face | a part of a person that is used to refer to a person.; "he looked out at a roomful of faces"; "when he returned to work he met many new faces" |
| ~ female person, female | a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies. |
| ~ individualist | a person who pursues independent thought or action. |
| ~ denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller | a person who inhabits a particular place. |
| ~ aborigine, indigen, indigene, native, aboriginal | an indigenous person who was born in a particular place.; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" |
| ~ native | a person born in a particular place or country.; "he is a native of Brazil" |
| ~ inexperienced person, innocent | a person who lacks knowledge of evil. |
| ~ intellectual, intellect | a person who uses the mind creatively. |
| ~ juvenile, juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed. |
| ~ lover | a person who loves someone or is loved by someone. |
| ~ loved one | a person who you love, usually a member of your family. |
| ~ leader | a person who rules or guides or inspires others. |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
| ~ money dealer, money handler | a person who receives or invests or pays out money. |
| ~ national, subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation.; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" |
| ~ nonreligious person | a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity. |
| ~ nonworker | a person who does nothing. |
| ~ compeer, equal, peer, match | a person who is of equal standing with another in a group. |
| ~ beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient | a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses. |
| ~ percher | a person situated on a perch. |
| ~ forerunner, precursor | a person who goes before or announces the coming of another. |
| ~ primitive, primitive person | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. |
| ~ religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity. |
| ~ sensualist | a person who enjoys sensuality. |
| ~ traveler, traveller | a person who changes location. |
| ~ unfortunate, unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune. |
| ~ unwelcome person, persona non grata | a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome. |
| ~ unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training. |
| ~ worker | a person who works at a specific occupation.; "he is a good worker" |
| ~ african | a native or inhabitant of Africa. |
| ~ person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person. |
| ~ black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid, black | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). |
| ~ caucasian, white, white person | a member of the Caucasoid race. |
| ~ amerindian, native american | any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived. |
| ~ slav | any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language. |
| ~ gentile | a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus. |
| ~ jew, hebrew, israelite | a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties. |
| ~ aries, ram | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries. |
| ~ taurus, bull | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus. |
| ~ gemini, twin | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini. |
| ~ cancer, crab | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer. |
| ~ leo, lion | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo. |
| ~ virgo, virgin | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo. |
| ~ libra, balance | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra. |
| ~ scorpio, scorpion | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio. |
| ~ sagittarius, archer | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius. |
| ~ capricorn, goat | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn. |
| ~ aquarius, water bearer | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius. |
| ~ pisces, fish | (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces. |
| ~ abator | a person who abates a nuisance. |
| ~ abjurer | a person who abjures. |
| ~ abomination | a person who is loathsome or disgusting. |
| ~ abstinent, nondrinker, abstainer | a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages. |
| ~ achiever, succeeder, winner, success | a person with a record of successes.; "his son would never be the achiever that his father was"; "only winners need apply"; "if you want to be a success you have to dress like a success" |
| ~ acquaintance, friend | a person with whom you are acquainted.; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" |
| ~ acquirer | a person who acquires something (usually permanently). |
| ~ active | a person who is a participating member of an organization.; "the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees" |
| ~ doer, actor, worker | a person who acts and gets things done.; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" |
| ~ adjudicator | a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes. |
| ~ admirer | a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves. |
| ~ adoptee | someone (such as a child) who has been adopted. |
| ~ adversary, antagonist, opposer, opponent, resister | someone who offers opposition. |
| ~ advisee | someone who receives advice. |
| ~ advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. |
| ~ affiant | a person who makes an affidavit. |
| ~ agnostic, doubter | someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something. |
| ~ amateur | someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime. |
| ~ ancient | a person who lived in ancient times. |
| ~ anti | a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.).; "the antis smelled victory after a long battle" |
| ~ anti-american | a person who is opposed to the United States and its policies. |
| ~ apprehender | a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice). |
| ~ appreciator | a person who is fully aware of something and understands it.; "he is not an appreciator of our dilemma" |
| ~ archaist | a person who archaizes. |
| ~ arrogator | a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess. |
| ~ assessee | a person (or property) that is assessed. |
| ~ asthmatic | a person suffering from asthma.; "she is a chronic asthmatic"; "the painful gasps of a dying asthmatic" |
| ~ authority | (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others.; "the authorities have issued a curfew" |
| ~ autodidact | a person who has taught himself. |
| ~ baby boomer, boomer | a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s.; "they expanded the schools for a generation of baby boomers" |
| ~ baby buster, buster | a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically. |
| ~ bad guy | any person who is not on your side. |
| ~ bad person | a person who does harm to others. |
| ~ baldhead, baldpate, baldy | a person whose head is bald. |
| ~ balker, baulker, noncompliant | a person who refuses to comply. |
| ~ bullfighter, toreador | someone who fights bulls. |
| ~ bather | a person who takes a bath. |
| ~ beard | a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality). |
| ~ bedfellow | a person with whom you share a bed. |
| ~ bereaved, bereaved person | a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved.; "the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of" |
| ~ best, topper | the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others.; "he could beat the best of them" |
| ~ birth | a baby born; an offspring.; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births" |
| ~ biter | someone who bites. |
| ~ blogger | a person who keeps and updates a blog. |
| ~ blond, blonde | a person with fair skin and hair. |
| ~ bluecoat | a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor). |
| ~ bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman | someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature. |
| ~ bomber | a person who plants bombs. |
| ~ brunet, brunette | a person with dark (brown) hair. |
| ~ buster | a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something.; "dam buster"; "sanction buster"; "crime buster" |
| ~ candidate, prospect | someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.). |
| ~ case | a person requiring professional services.; "a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor" |
| ~ cashier | a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant). |
| ~ celebrant, celebrater, celebrator | a person who is celebrating. |
| ~ censor | someone who censures or condemns. |
| ~ chameleon | a changeable or inconstant person. |
| ~ beguiler, charmer | a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness). |
| ~ baby, child | an immature childish person.; "he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived"; "stop being a baby!" |
| ~ chutzpanik | (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa. |
| ~ closer | a person who closes something.; "whoever is the closer has to turn out the lights and lock up" |
| ~ clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination. |
| ~ aggregator, collector | a person who collects things. |
| ~ battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper | someone who fights (or is fighting). |
| ~ complexifier | someone makes things complex. |
| ~ compulsive | a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things. |
| ~ computer user | a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business. |
| ~ contemplative | a person devoted to the contemplative life. |
| ~ convert | a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief. |
| ~ aper, copycat, emulator, ape, imitator | someone who copies the words or behavior of another. |
| ~ counter | a person who counts things. |
| ~ counterterrorist | someone who attempts to prevent terrorism. |
| ~ crawler, creeper | a person who crawls or creeps along the ground. |
| ~ wight, creature | a human being; `wight' is an archaic term. |
| ~ creditor | a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists. |
| ~ cripple | someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back. |
| ~ social dancer, dancer | a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball). |
| ~ dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed | someone who is no longer alive.; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" |
| ~ deaf person | a person with a severe auditory impairment. |
| ~ debaser, degrader | a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins). |
| ~ debitor, debtor | a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt. |
| ~ defecator, shitter, voider | a person who defecates. |
| ~ delayer | a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late. |
| ~ deliverer | a person who gives up or transfers money or goods. |
| ~ demander | a person who makes demands. |
| ~ dieter | a person who diets. |
| ~ differentiator, discriminator | a person who (or that which) differentiates. |
| ~ disentangler, unraveler, unraveller | a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state. |
| ~ dissenter, dissident, objector, protester, contestant | a person who dissents from some established policy. |
| ~ divider | a person who separates something into parts or groups. |
| ~ domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship. |
| ~ look-alike, double, image | someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor).; "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" |
| ~ dresser | a person who dresses in a particular way.; "she's an elegant dresser"; "he's a meticulous dresser" |
| ~ drooler, slobberer, dribbler, driveller | a person who dribbles.; "that baby is a dribbler; he needs a bib" |
| ~ drug user, substance abuser, user | a person who takes drugs. |
| ~ dyslectic | a person who has dyslexia. |
| ~ ectomorph | a person with a thin body. |
| ~ effecter, effector | one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose. |
| ~ elizabethan | a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I.; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan" |
| ~ emotional person | a person subject to strong states of emotion. |
| ~ endomorph | a heavy person with a soft and rounded body. |
| ~ enjoyer | a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something. |
| ~ enrollee | a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study. |
| ~ ethnic | a person who is a member of an ethnic group. |
| ~ explorer, adventurer | someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose). |
| ~ extravert, extrovert | (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings. |
| ~ faddist | a person who subscribes to a variety of fads. |
| ~ faller | a person who falls.; "one of them was safe but they were unable to save the faller"; "a faller among thieves" |
| ~ fastener | a person who fastens or makes fast.; "he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was" |
| ~ fiduciary | a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary.; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain" |
| ~ first-rater | one who is first-rate. |
| ~ follower | a person who accepts the leadership of another. |
| ~ free spirit, freewheeler, free agent | someone acting freely or even irresponsibly. |
| ~ friend | a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.; "he was my best friend at the university" |
| ~ fleer, fugitive, runaway | someone who flees from an uncongenial situation.; "fugitives from the sweatshops" |
| ~ gainer | a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits).; "she was clearly the gainer in that exchange" |
| ~ gainer, weight gainer | a person who gains weight. |
| ~ gambler | a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events. |
| ~ gatekeeper | someone who controls access to something.; "there are too many gatekeepers between the field officers and the chief" |
| ~ gatherer | a person who gathers.; "they were a society of hunters and gatherers" |
| ~ good guy | any person who is on your side. |
| ~ good person | a person who is good to other people. |
| ~ granter | a person who grants or gives something. |
| ~ greeter, saluter, welcomer | a person who greets.; "the newcomers were met by smiling greeters" |
| ~ grinner | a person who grins. |
| ~ groaner | a person who groans. |
| ~ grunter | a person who grunts. |
| ~ guesser | a person who guesses. |
| ~ handicapped person | a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially. |
| ~ hater | a person who hates. |
| ~ heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person | a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex. |
| ~ gay, homo, homophile, homosexual | someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. |
| ~ homunculus | a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell. |
| ~ hope | someone (or something) on which expectations are centered.; "he was their best hope for a victory" |
| ~ hoper | a person who hopes.; "only an avid hoper could expect the team to win now" |
| ~ huddler | a person who crouches.; "low huddlers against the wind" |
| ~ hugger | a person who hugs. |
| ~ immune | a person who is immune to a particular infection. |
| ~ insured, insured person | a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc.. |
| ~ interpreter | someone who uses art to represent something.; "his paintings reveal a sensitive interpreter of nature"; "she was famous as an interpreter of Shakespearean roles" |
| ~ introvert | (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts. |
| ~ jat | a member of an Indo-European people widely scattered throughout the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and consisting of Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs. |
| ~ jewel, gem | a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry. |
| ~ jumper | a person who jumps.; "as the jumper neared the ground he lost control"; "the jumper's parachute opened" |
| ~ junior | the younger of two persons.; "she is two years my junior" |
| ~ killer, slayer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ kink | a person with unusual sexual tastes. |
| ~ kneeler | a person in a kneeling position. |
| ~ knocker | a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance).; "open the door and see who the knocker is" |
| ~ apprehender, knower | a person who knows or apprehends. |
| ~ large person | a person of greater than average size. |
| ~ latin | a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin. |
| ~ laugher | a person who is laughing or who laughs easily. |
| ~ assimilator, learner, scholar | someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs. |
| ~ lefty, left-hander, southpaw | a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right.; "their pitcher was a southpaw" |
| ~ life | a living person.; "his heroism saved a life" |
| ~ lightning rod | someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another. |
| ~ polyglot, linguist | a person who speaks more than one language. |
| ~ literate, literate person | a person who can read and write. |
| ~ liver | a person who has a special life style.; "a high liver" |
| ~ longer, thirster, yearner | a person with a strong desire for something.; "a longer for money"; "a thirster after blood"; "a yearner for knowledge" |
| ~ loose cannon | a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous. |
| ~ machine | an efficient person.; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting machine" |
| ~ mailer | a person who mails something. |
| ~ malcontent | a person who is discontented or disgusted. |
| ~ man | the generic use of the word to refer to any human being.; "it was every man for himself" |
| ~ manipulator | a person who handles things manually. |
| ~ man jack | a single individual.; "every man jack" |
| ~ married | a person who is married.; "we invited several young marrieds" |
| ~ masturbator, onanist | a person who practices masturbation. |
| ~ measurer | a person who makes measurements. |
| ~ nonmember | a person who is not a member. |
| ~ mesomorph | a person with a well-developed muscular body. |
| ~ ladino, mestizo | a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry). |
| ~ middlebrow | someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow. |
| ~ miracle man, miracle worker | a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles. |
| ~ misogamist | a person who hates marriage. |
| ~ mixed-blood | a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races. |
| ~ modern | a contemporary person. |
| ~ monolingual | a person who knows only one language. |
| ~ mother hen | a person who cares for the needs of others (especially in an overprotective or interfering way). |
| ~ mouse | person who is quiet or timid. |
| ~ maimer, mangler, mutilator | a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples. |
| ~ namer | a person who gives a name or names.; "the owner is usually the namer of a boat" |
| ~ namesake | a person with the same name as another. |
| ~ neglecter | a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities.; "he tried vainly to impress his neglecters" |
| ~ neighbor, neighbour | a person who lives (or is located) near another. |
| ~ neutral | one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute. |
| ~ nondescript | a person is not easily classified and not very interesting. |
| ~ nonparticipant | a person who does not participate. |
| ~ nonpartisan, nonpartizan | a person who is nonpartisan. |
| ~ nonperson, unperson | a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons).; "the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"; "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons" |
| ~ nonresident | someone who does not live in a particular place.; "described by an admiring nonresident as a green and pleasant land" |
| ~ nonsmoker | a person who does not smoke tobacco. |
| ~ nude person, nude | a naked person. |
| ~ nurser | a person who treats something carefully.; "a great nurser of pennies" |
| ~ occultist | a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts. |
| ~ optimist | a person disposed to take a favorable view of things. |
| ~ orphan | someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision. |
| ~ ostrich | a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand). |
| ~ ejector, ouster | a person who ousts or supplants someone else. |
| ~ outcaste | a person belonging to no caste. |
| ~ outdoorsman | a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing). |
| ~ possessor, owner | a person who owns something.; "they are searching for the owner of the car"; "who is the owner of that friendly smile?" |
| ~ coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler | someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence. |
| ~ pansexual | a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds. |
| ~ excuser, forgiver, pardoner | a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense. |
| ~ partner | a person who is a member of a partnership. |
| ~ party | a person involved in legal proceedings.; "the party of the first part" |
| ~ passer | a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group. |
| ~ personage | another word for person; a person not meriting identification.; "a strange personage appeared at the door" |
| ~ personification | a person who represents an abstract quality.; "she is the personification of optimism" |
| ~ perspirer, sweater | a person who perspires. |
| ~ philosopher | a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity. |
| ~ chooser, picker, selector | a person who chooses or selects out. |
| ~ pisser, urinator | a person who urinates. |
| ~ contriver, deviser, planner | a person who makes plans. |
| ~ player | a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously. |
| ~ posturer | someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others. |
| ~ powderer | someone who applies or scatters powder. |
| ~ preserver | someone who keeps safe from harm or danger. |
| ~ propositus | the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action. |
| ~ public relations person | a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public. |
| ~ pursuer | a person who pursues some plan or goal.; "a pursuer of truth" |
| ~ pussycat | a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable. |
| ~ quarter | an unspecified person.; "he dropped a word in the right quarter" |
| ~ quitter | a person who gives up too easily. |
| ~ radical | a person who has radical ideas or opinions. |
| ~ realist | a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly. |
| ~ rectifier | a person who corrects or sets right.; "a rectifier of prejudices" |
| ~ carrottop, red-header, redhead, redheader | someone who has red hair. |
| ~ registrant | a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby). |
| ~ allayer, comforter, reliever | a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies.; "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears" |
| ~ repeater | a person who repeats.; "the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times" |
| ~ recoverer, saver, rescuer | someone who saves something from danger or violence. |
| ~ rester | a person who rests. |
| ~ controller, restrainer | a person who directs and restrains. |
| ~ revenant | a person who returns after a lengthy absence. |
| ~ have, rich person, wealthy person | a person who possesses great material wealth. |
| ~ right hander, righthander, right-hander | a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left. |
| ~ riser | a person who rises (especially from bed).; "he's usually a late riser" |
| ~ romper | a person who romps or frolics. |
| ~ roundhead | a brachycephalic person. |
| ~ ruler, swayer | a person who rules or commands.; "swayer of the universe" |
| ~ rusher | a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously. |
| ~ scientist | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences. |
| ~ scratcher | a person who scratches to relieve an itch. |
| ~ second-rater, mediocrity | a person of second-rate ability or value.; "a team of aging second-raters"; "shone among the mediocrities who surrounded him" |
| ~ cloud seeder, seeder | a person who seeds clouds. |
| ~ quester, searcher, seeker | someone making a search or inquiry.; "they are seekers after truth" |
| ~ segregate | someone who is or has been segregated. |
| ~ romanticist, sentimentalist | someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality. |
| ~ sex object | any person regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification. |
| ~ sex symbol | a person (especially a celebrity) who is well-known for their sexual attractiveness. |
| ~ mover and shaker, shaker | a person who wields power and influence.; "a shaker of traditional beliefs"; "movers and shakers in the business world" |
| ~ showman | a person skilled at making effective presentations. |
| ~ signatory, signer | someone who signs and is bound by a document. |
| ~ simpleton, simple | a person lacking intelligence or common sense. |
| ~ six-footer | a person who is at least six feet tall. |
| ~ skidder, slider, slipper | a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction. |
| ~ slave | a person who is owned by someone. |
| ~ slave | someone entirely dominated by some influence or person.; "a slave to fashion"; "a slave to cocaine"; "his mother was his abject slave" |
| ~ sleepyhead | a sleepy person. |
| ~ sloucher | a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage. |
| ~ small person | a person of below average size. |
| ~ smasher | a person who smashes something. |
| ~ smiler | a person who smiles. |
| ~ sneezer | a person who sneezes. |
| ~ sniffer | a person who sniffs. |
| ~ sniffler, sniveler | a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose. |
| ~ snuffer | a person who snuffs out candles. |
| ~ snuffler | a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus). |
| ~ socialiser, socializer | a person who takes part in social activities. |
| ~ sort | a person of a particular character or nature.; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort" |
| ~ sounding board | a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability.; "I would use newspapermen as a sounding board for such policies" |
| ~ sphinx | an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret. |
| ~ expectorator, spitter | a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth). |
| ~ sport | a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances.; "a good sport"; "a poor sport" |
| ~ sprawler | a person who sprawls.; "he is such a sprawler he needs a bed to himself" |
| ~ spurner | a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt.; "she was known as a spurner of all suitors"; "he was no spurner of rules" |
| ~ squint-eye, squinter | a person with strabismus. |
| ~ smotherer, stifler | a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses.; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop" |
| ~ stigmatic, stigmatist | a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ). |
| ~ stooper | a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward. |
| ~ stranger | an individual that one is not acquainted with. |
| ~ struggler | a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort. |
| ~ guinea pig, subject, case | a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation.; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" |
| ~ supernumerary | a person serving no apparent function.; "reducing staff is difficult because our employees include no supernumeraries" |
| ~ surrenderer, yielder | a person who yields or surrenders. |
| ~ survivalist | someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation. |
| ~ survivor | one who outlives another.; "he left his farm to his survivors" |
| ~ suspect | someone who is under suspicion. |
| ~ tagger | someone who appends or joins one thing to another.; "a theory that was simply added on by some anonymous tagger" |
| ~ tagger | someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter. |
| ~ tapper | a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly.; "finger tappers irritated her" |
| ~ tempter | a person who tempts others.; "Satan is the great tempter of mankind" |
| ~ termer | a person who serves a specified term.; "there are not many fourth termers in the Senate" |
| ~ terror, scourge, threat | a person who inspires fear or dread.; "he was the terror of the neighborhood" |
| ~ testate, testator | a person who makes a will. |
| ~ scrag, skin and bones, thin person | a person who is unusually thin and scrawny. |
| ~ third-rater | one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior. |
| ~ thrower | someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm). |
| ~ tiger | a fierce or audacious person.; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me" |
| ~ totemist | a person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem. |
| ~ toucher | a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something. |
| ~ transfer, transferee | someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another.; "the best student was a transfer from LSU" |
| ~ transexual, transsexual | a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex. |
| ~ cross-dresser, transvestite | someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex. |
| ~ attempter, essayer, trier | one who tries. |
| ~ turner | one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope. |
| ~ tyrant | any person who exercises power in a cruel way.; "his father was a tyrant" |
| ~ unfastener, untier, opener, undoer | a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens.; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces" |
| ~ user | a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something. |
| ~ vanisher | a person who disappears. |
| ~ dupe, victim | a person who is tricked or swindled. |
| ~ victorian | a person who lived during the reign of Victoria. |
| ~ visionary | a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible. |
| ~ visually impaired person | someone who has inferior vision. |
| ~ waiter | a person who waits or awaits. |
| ~ waker | a person who awakes.; "an early waker" |
| ~ walk-in | person who walks in without having an appointment.; "the emergency room was overrun with walk-ins" |
| ~ needer, wanter | a person who wants or needs something.; "an owner of many things and needer of none" |
| ~ ward | a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another. |
| ~ warrior | someone engaged in or experienced in warfare. |
| ~ watcher | a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body. |
| ~ doormat, weakling, wuss | a person who is physically weak and ineffectual. |
| ~ weasel | a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky. |
| ~ squirmer, wiggler, wriggler | one who can't stay still (especially a child).; "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips" |
| ~ winker | a person who winks. |
| ~ withholder | a person who refrains from granting.; "a withholder of payments" |
| ~ witness | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law. |
| ~ worldling | a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world. |
| ~ yawner | a person who yawns. |
| n. (person) | 2. individual | a single organism. |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| ~ head | an individual person.; "tickets are $5 per head" |
| adj. | 3. individual, single | being or characteristic of a single thing or person.; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" |
| ~ idiosyncratic | peculiar to the individual.; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting" |
| ~ individualist, individualistic | marked by or expressing individuality.; "an individualistic way of dressing" |
| ~ man-to-man, one-on-one | being a system of play in which an individual defensive player guards an individual offensive player.; "one-on-one defense" |
| ~ respective, several, various | considered individually.; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" |
| ~ singular | being a single and separate person or thing.; "can the singular person be understood apart from his culture?"; "every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind" |
| ~ separate | independent; not united or joint.; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church" |
| adj. | 4. case-by-case, individual, item-by-item | separate and distinct from others of the same kind.; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" |
| ~ independent | free from external control and constraint.; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism" |
| adj. | 5. individual, single | characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing.; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" |
| ~ unshared | not shared. |
| adj. | 6. individual, private | concerning one person exclusively.; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" |
| ~ personal | concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality.; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" |
| single | | |
| n. (act) | 1. bingle, single | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base. |
| ~ base hit, safety | (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely. |
| ~ line-drive single, line single | a single resulting from a line drive. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. 1, ace, i, one, single, unity | the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number.; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" |
| ~ digit, figure | one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration.; "0 and 1 are digits" |
| ~ monas, monad | a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive. |
| ~ singleton | a single object (as distinguished from a pair). |
| v. (contact) | 3. single | hit a single.; "the batter singled to left field" |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| ~ hit | cause to move by striking.; "hit a ball" |
| adj. | 4. single | used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals.; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" |
| ~ phytology, botany | the branch of biology that studies plants. |
| adj. | 5. single | existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" |
| ~ azygos, azygous | occurring singly; not one of a pair.; "the azygous muscle of the uvula" |
| ~ one-man, one-person, one-woman | designed for or restricted to a single person.; "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"; "Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show" |
| ~ lonesome, only, sole, lone, solitary | being the only one; single and isolated from others.; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" |
| ~ unique, singular | the single one of its kind.; "a singular example"; "the unique existing example of Donne's handwriting"; "a unique copy of an ancient manuscript"; "certain types of problems have unique solutions" |
| ~ sui generis | constituting a class of its own; unique.; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary" |
| ~ unary | consisting of or involving a single element or component.; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result" |
| ~ one-member, uninominal | based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature).; "a uninominal electoral system" |
| adj. | 6. single, unmarried | not married or related to the unmarried state.; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" |
| ~ divorced | of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved. |
| ~ mateless | of someone who has no marriage partner. |
| ~ unwed, unwedded | of someone who has not been married.; "unwed mother" |
| ~ widowed | single because of death of the spouse. |
| ~ unmated | not mated sexually. |
| adj. | 7. single | having uniform application.; "a single legal code for all" |
| ~ uniform, unvarying | always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences.; "a street of uniform tall white buildings" |
| adj. | 8. exclusive, single, undivided | not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective.; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" |
| ~ concentrated | gathered together or made less diffuse.; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" |
| sole | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. sole | the underside of footwear or a golf club. |
| ~ footgear, footwear | covering for a person's feet. |
| ~ club-head, club head, clubhead, golf-club head | (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball. |
| ~ half sole | shoe sole extending from the shank to the toe. |
| ~ innersole, insole | the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests. |
| ~ outsole | the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground. |
| ~ waist, shank | the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole. |
| ~ bottom, underside, undersurface | the lower side of anything. |
| n. (food) | 2. fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| ~ sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| ~ flatfish | sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets. |
| ~ gray sole, grey sole | greyish-white flesh of a flatfish. |
| ~ english sole, lemon sole | highly valued almost pure white flesh. |
| n. (body) | 3. sole | the underside of the foot. |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ foot, human foot, pes | the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint.; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot" |
| ~ ball | a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass.; "the ball at the base of the thumb"; "he stood on the balls of his feet" |
| n. (animal) | 4. sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| ~ food fish | any fish used for food by human beings. |
| ~ flatfish | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side. |
| ~ family soleidae, soleidae | soles. |
| ~ european sole, solea solea | highly valued as food. |
| ~ solea lascaris, lemon sole | small European sole. |
| ~ parophrys vitulus, english sole, lemon sole | popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America. |
| ~ psettichthys melanostichus, sand sole | a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America. |
| ~ hogchoker, trinectes maculatus | useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama. |
| ~ fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| v. (change) | 5. resole, sole | put a new sole on.; "sole the shoes" |
| ~ bushel, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, doctor, touch on, restore | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" |
| adj. | 6. exclusive, sole | not divided or shared with others.; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" |
| ~ unshared | not shared. |
| adj. | 7. lone, lonesome, only, sole, solitary | being the only one; single and isolated from others.; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" |
| ~ single | existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual.; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" |
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