character | | |
n. (person) | 1. character, fictional character, fictitious character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story).; "she is the main character in the novel" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| ~ aladdin | in the Arabian Nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie. |
| ~ argonaut | (Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece. |
| ~ babar | an imaginary elephant that appears in a series of French books for children. |
| ~ beatrice | the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy. |
| ~ beowulf | the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon. |
| ~ bluebeard | (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience. |
| ~ james bond, bond | British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming. |
| ~ brer rabbit | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880. |
| ~ paul bunyan, bunyan | a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada.; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water" |
| ~ john henry | hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill. |
| ~ cheshire cat | a fictional cat with a broad fixed smile on its face; created by Lewis Carroll. |
| ~ chicken little | a fictional character who was hit on the head with an acorn and believed that the sky was falling. |
| ~ cinderella | a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince. |
| ~ colonel blimp | a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low. |
| ~ dracula | fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker. |
| ~ don quixote | the hero of a romance by Cervantes; chivalrous but impractical. |
| ~ el cid | the hero of a Spanish epic poem from the 12th century. |
| ~ fagin | a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens.; "Fagin was a fence who trained boys as pickpockets" |
| ~ falstaff, sir john falstaff | a dissolute character in Shakespeare's plays. |
| ~ father brown | a Catholic priest who was the hero of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton. |
| ~ faust, faustus | an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge. |
| ~ frankenstein | the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses. |
| ~ frankenstein's monster, frankenstein | the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation). |
| ~ goofy | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ gulliver | a fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput in a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ hamlet | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father. |
| ~ captain horatio hornblower, horatio hornblower | a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester. |
| ~ iago | the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife. |
| ~ commissaire maigret, inspector maigret | a fictional detective in novels by Georges Simenon. |
| ~ kilroy | a nonexistent person popularized by American servicemen during World War II.; "Kilroy was here" |
| ~ king lear, lear | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters. |
| ~ lilliputian | a 6-inch tall inhabitant of Lilliput in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ philip marlowe, marlowe | tough cynical detective (one of the early detective heroes in American fiction) created by Raymond Chandler. |
| ~ micawber, wilkins micawber | fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist. |
| ~ mother goose | the imaginary author of a collection of nursery rhymes. |
| ~ mr. moto | Japanese sleuth created by John Marquand. |
| ~ othello | the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife. |
| ~ pangloss | an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire. |
| ~ pantaloon | a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man. |
| ~ perry mason | fictional detective in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. |
| ~ peter pan | the main character in a play and novel by J. M. Barrie; a boy who won't grow up. |
| ~ pied piper of hamelin, pied piper | the title character in a German folk tale and in a poem by Robert Browning. |
| ~ pierrot | a male character in French pantomime; usually dressed in white with a whitened face. |
| ~ pluto | a cartoon character created by Walt Disney. |
| ~ huck finn, huckleberry finn | a mischievous boy in a novel by Mark Twain. |
| ~ rip van winkle | the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens. |
| ~ ruritanian | an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania. |
| ~ tarzan of the apes, tarzan | a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. |
| ~ tom sawyer | the boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain. |
| ~ uncle remus | the fictional storyteller of tales written in the Black Vernacular and set in the South; the tales were first collected and published in book form in 1880. |
| ~ uncle tom | a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ uncle sam | a personification of the United States government. |
| ~ holmes, sherlock holmes | a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle. |
| ~ simon legree | the cruel slave dealer in an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| ~ sinbad, sinbad the sailor | in the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages. |
| ~ snoopy | a fictional beagle in a comic strip drawn by Charles Schulz. |
| ~ ali baba | the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment. |
| ~ emile | the boy whose upbringing was described by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
| ~ agonist, protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ houyhnhnm | one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ little john | legendary follower of Robin Hood; noted for his size and strength. |
| ~ little red riding hood | a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother. |
| ~ raskolnikov, rodya raskolnikov | a fictional character in Dostoevsky's novel `Crime and Punishment'; he kills old women because he believes he is beyond the bounds of good or evil. |
| ~ robin hood | legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor. |
| ~ robinson crusoe | the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island. |
| ~ rumpelstiltskin | a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself. |
| ~ shylock | a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare. |
| ~ tristan, tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other. |
| ~ iseult, isolde | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other. |
| ~ scaramouch, scaramouche | a stock character in commedia dell'arte depicted as a boastful coward. |
| ~ svengali | the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically. |
| ~ sweeney todd, todd | fictional character in a play by George Pitt; a barber who murdered his customers. |
| ~ trilby | singer in a novel by George du Maurier who was under the control of the hypnotist Svengali. |
| ~ walter mitty | fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs. |
| ~ yahoo | one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift. |
| ~ king arthur, arthur | a legendary king of the Britons (possibly based on a historical figure in the 6th century but the story has been retold too many times to be sure); said to have led the Knights of the Round Table at Camelot. |
| ~ galahad, sir galahad | (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail. |
| ~ gawain, sir gawain | (Arthurian legend) a nephew of Arthur and one of the knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ guenevere, guinevere | (Arthurian legend) wife of King Arthur; in some versions of the legend she became Lancelot's lover and that led to the end of the Knights of the Round Table. |
| ~ lancelot, sir lancelot | (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table; friend of King Arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of Arthur's wife Guinevere. |
| ~ merlin | (Arthurian legend) the magician who acted as King Arthur's advisor. |
n. (cognition) | 2. character, lineament, quality | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something.; "each town has a quality all its own"; "the radical character of our demands" |
| ~ attribute, dimension, property | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished.; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" |
| ~ texture | the essential quality of something.; "the texture of Neapolitan life" |
n. (attribute) | 3. character, fiber, fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions.; "education has for its object the formation of character" |
| ~ trait | a distinguishing feature of your personal nature. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ spirit | a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character. |
| ~ thoughtfulness | the trait of thinking carefully before acting. |
| ~ responsibleness, responsibility | a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct.; "he holds a position of great responsibility" |
| ~ integrity | moral soundness.; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity" |
n. (cognition) | 4. character, part, persona, role, theatrical role | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play.; "she played the part of Desdemona" |
| ~ personation, portrayal, characterization, enactment | acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture. |
| ~ bit part, minor role | a small role. |
| ~ heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play. |
| ~ hero | the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem. |
| ~ ingenue | the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play. |
| ~ name part, title role | the role of the character after whom the play is named. |
| ~ heroine | the main good female character in a work of fiction. |
| ~ baddie, villain | the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction. |
n. (person) | 5. case, character, eccentric, type | a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities).; "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case" |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
n. (state) | 6. character | good repute.; "he is a man of character" |
| ~ reputation, repute | the state of being held in high esteem and honor. |
n. (communication) | 7. character, character reference, reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability.; "requests for character references are all too often answered evasively" |
| ~ good word, recommendation, testimonial | something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirable. |
n. (communication) | 8. character, grapheme, graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech.; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" |
| ~ printed symbol, written symbol | a written or printed symbol. |
| ~ allograph | a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme. |
| ~ check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission. |
| ~ superscript, superior | a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character. |
| ~ subscript, inferior | a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character. |
| ~ ascii character | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers. |
| ~ ligature | character consisting of two or more letters combined into one. |
| ~ capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital | one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis.; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" |
| ~ lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter | the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. |
| ~ type | printed characters.; "small type is hard to read" |
| ~ percent sign, percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100. |
| ~ asterisk, star | a star-shaped character * used in printing. |
| ~ dagger, obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ diesis, double dagger, double obelisk | a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. |
| ~ alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech.; "his grandmother taught him his letters" |
| ~ blank, space | a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing.; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" |
| ~ phonetic symbol | a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound. |
| ~ mathematical symbol | a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation. |
| ~ rune, runic letter | any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.; "each rune had its own magical significance" |
| ~ pictograph | a graphic character used in picture writing. |
| ~ ideogram, ideograph | a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it.; "Chinese characters are ideograms" |
| ~ radical | a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram. |
| ~ stenograph | a shorthand character. |
n. (attribute) | 9. character | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes. |
| ~ attribute | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity. |
| ~ unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene. |
| ~ genetic science, genetics | the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms. |
v. (contact) | 10. character | engrave or inscribe characters on. |
| ~ engrave, inscribe, grave, scratch | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree" |
human | | |
n. (animal) | 1. homo, human, human being, man | any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| ~ lumbus, loin | either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds. |
| ~ hominid | a primate of the family Hominidae. |
| ~ genus homo | type genus of the family Hominidae. |
| ~ human beings, human race, humankind, humans, mankind, humanity, world, man | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth.; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" |
| ~ homo erectus | extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain.; "Homo erectus was formerly called Pithecanthropus erectus" |
| ~ homo soloensis | extinct primitive hominid of late Pleistocene; Java; formerly Javanthropus. |
| ~ homo habilis | extinct species of upright East African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics. |
| ~ homo sapiens | the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc. |
| ~ homo sapiens neanderthalensis, neandertal, neandertal man, neanderthal, neanderthal man | extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia. |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ body hair | short hair growing over a person's body. |
| ~ head of hair, mane | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being. |
| ~ human head | the head of a human being. |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ arm | a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb. |
| ~ hand, manus, mitt, paw | the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" |
| ~ face, human face | the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear.; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" |
| ~ nutrition | the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans). |
| ~ homo rhodesiensis, rhodesian man | a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa. |
| ~ schistosome dermatitis, swimmer's itch | a sensitization reaction to repeated invasion of the skin by cercariae of schistosomes. |
| ~ hyperdactyly, polydactyly | birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes. |
| ~ syndactylism, syndactyly | birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes. |
| ~ prepubertal, prepubescent | (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth. |
adj. (pertain) | 2. human | characteristic of humanity.; "human nature" |
adj. (pertain) | 3. human | relating to a person.; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects" |
adj. | 4. human | having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings.; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" |
| ~ anthropoid, manlike | resembling human beings. |
| ~ anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, humanlike | suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things. |
| ~ earthborn | springing from or born on the earth.; "earthborn beings" |
| ~ fallible, frail, imperfect, weak | wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings.; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" |
| ~ hominal | of humankind as a species.; "the hominal kingdom" |
| ~ hominian, hominid | characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures. |
| ~ hominine | characteristic of humankind. |
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" |
man | | |
n. (person) | 1. adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| ~ adult male body, man's body | the body of an adult man. |
| ~ adam | (Old Testament) in Judeo-Christian mythology; the first man and the husband of Eve and the progenitor of the human race. |
| ~ cain | (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God. |
| ~ abel | (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Abel was killed by Cain. |
| ~ seth | (Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel. |
| ~ adult, grownup | a fully developed person from maturity onward. |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
| ~ black man | a man who is Black. |
| ~ white man | a man who is White. |
| ~ yellow man | offensive term for an Asian man. |
| ~ baboo, babu | used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'. |
| ~ bachelor, unmarried man | a man who has never been married. |
| ~ bey | (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt.; "he introduced me to Ahmet Bey" |
| ~ boy | a friendly informal reference to a grown man.; "he likes to play golf with the boys" |
| ~ beau, boyfriend, swain, young man, fellow | a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman.; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" |
| ~ ex-boyfriend | a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend. |
| ~ bruiser, strapper, bull, samson | a large and strong and heavyset man.; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got" |
| ~ dandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, beau, clotheshorse, dude, sheik, swell | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. |
| ~ ejaculator | a man who ejaculates semen. |
| ~ esq, esquire | a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name. |
| ~ castrate, eunuch | a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction.; "eunuchs guarded the harem" |
| ~ father figure, father surrogate | a man who takes over all the functions of the real father. |
| ~ father-figure | a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically. |
| ~ buster, dude, fellow | an informal form of address for a man.; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" |
| ~ galoot | a disreputable or clumsy man. |
| ~ geezer | a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric. |
| ~ gentleman | a man of refinement. |
| ~ divorced man, grass widower | a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife. |
| ~ guy, hombre, bozo, cat | an informal term for a youth or man.; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" |
| ~ ham | (Old Testament) son of Noah. |
| ~ herr | a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English. |
| ~ hooray henry | a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man. |
| ~ housefather | a man in charge of children in an institution. |
| ~ hunk | a well-built sexually attractive man. |
| ~ ex, ex-husband | a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband. |
| ~ inamorato | a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship. |
| ~ iron man, ironman | a strong man of exceptional physical endurance. |
| ~ ironside | a man of great strength or bravery. |
| ~ japheth | (Old Testament) son of Noah. |
| ~ adonis | any handsome young man. |
| ~ middle-aged man | a man who is roughly between 45 and 65 years old. |
| ~ monsieur | used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'. |
| ~ old boy, old man | a familiar term of address for a man. |
| ~ graybeard, greybeard, old man, methuselah | a man who is very old. |
| ~ paterfamilias, patriarch | the male head of family or tribe. |
| ~ peter pan | a boyish or immature man; after the boy in Barrie's play who never grows up. |
| ~ ponce | a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses. |
| ~ posseman | an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse. |
| ~ senhor | a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'. |
| ~ shaver | an adult male who shaves. |
| ~ shem | (Old Testament) eldest son of Noah. |
| ~ signior, signor | used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately. |
| ~ signore | an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name). |
| ~ sir | term of address for a man. |
| ~ stiff | an ordinary man.; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff" |
| ~ he-man, macho-man, stud | a man who is virile and sexually active. |
| ~ tarzan | (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs). |
| ~ widower, widowman | a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried. |
| ~ philanderer, womaniser, womanizer | a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them. |
| ~ golden boy, wonder boy | a man who is unusually successful at an early age. |
| ~ young buck, young man | a teenager or a young adult male. |
n. (person) | 2. man, military man, military personnel, serviceman | someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force.; "two men stood sentry duty" |
| ~ military force, military group, military unit, force | a unit that is part of some military service.; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ air force officer, commander | an officer in the airforce. |
| ~ artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner | a serviceman in the artillery. |
| ~ bluejacket, navy man, sailor boy, sailor | a serviceman in the navy. |
| ~ commando, ranger | a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids. |
| ~ conscript, draftee, inductee | someone who is drafted into military service. |
| ~ enlisted person | a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer. |
| ~ devil dog, leatherneck, marine, shipboard soldier | a member of the United States Marine Corps. |
| ~ military officer, officer | any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command.; "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men" |
| ~ noncombatant | a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon). |
| ~ occupier | a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country. |
| ~ skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker | a worker who has acquired special skills. |
| ~ striper | a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service.; "he's a four-striper" |
| ~ ex-serviceman, vet, veteran | a person who has served in the armed forces. |
| ~ veteran, veteran soldier | a serviceman who has seen considerable active service.; "the veterans laughed at the new recruits" |
| ~ military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer | (military) a person who freely enlists for service. |
n. (person) | 3. man | the generic use of the word to refer to any human being.; "it was every man for himself" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
n. (person) | 4. man | a male subordinate.; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" |
| ~ subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier | an assistant subject to the authority or control of another. |
n. (person) | 5. man | an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent).; "the army will make a man of you" |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
n. (person) | 6. gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre | a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer.; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" |
| ~ body servant | a valet or personal maid. |
| ~ manservant | a man servant. |
n. (person) | 7. man | a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman.; "she takes good care of her man" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ lover | a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage. |
| ~ male person, male | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies. |
n. (location) | 8. isle of man, man | one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea. |
| ~ british isles | Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic. |
| ~ island | a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water. |
n. (artifact) | 9. man, piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games.; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" |
| ~ black | (board games) the darker pieces. |
| ~ chequer, checker | one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers. |
| ~ chess piece, chessman | any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess. |
| ~ game equipment | equipment or apparatus used in playing a game. |
| ~ tile | game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.. |
| ~ white | (board games) the lighter pieces. |
n. (animal) | 10. human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world | all of the living human inhabitants of the earth.; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ human, human being, homo, man | any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
v. (social) | 11. man | take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place.; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" |
| ~ man | provide with workers.; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths" |
| ~ do work, work | be employed.; "Is your husband working again?"; "My wife never worked"; "Do you want to work after the age of 60?"; "She never did any work because she inherited a lot of money"; "She works as a waitress to put herself through college" |
v. (competition) | 12. man | provide with workers.; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths" |
| ~ staff | provide with staff.; "This position is not always staffed" |
| ~ crew | serve as a crew member on. |
| ~ man | take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place.; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" |
mortal | | |
adj. | 1. mortal | subject to death.; "mortal beings" |
| ~ finite | bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent. |
| ~ earthly | of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven.; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" |
| ~ earthborn | of earthly origin (as mortals are).; "earthborn existence" |
adj. | 2. deadly, mortal | involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death.; "the seven deadly sins" |
| ~ theology, divinity | the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth. |
| ~ unpardonable | not admitting of pardon.; "unpardonable behavior" |
adj. | 3. mortal | unrelenting and deadly.; "mortal enemy" |
| ~ merciless, unmerciful | having or showing no mercy.; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" |
adj. | 4. deadly, deathly, mortal | causing or capable of causing death.; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" |
| ~ fatal | bringing death. |
person | | |
n. (body) | 1. person | a human body (usually including the clothing).; "a weapon was hidden on his person" |
| ~ 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" |
n. (communication) | 2. person | a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party.; "stop talking about yourself in the third person" |
| ~ grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties. |
| ~ first person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur. |
| ~ second person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur. |
| ~ third person | pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur. |
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