person
individual
someone
somebody
mortal
soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
| person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
| 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 |
| 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 |
disabled
handicapped | people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped, technology to help the elderly and the disabled |
anomaly
unusual person | a person who is unusual |
| color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
commoner
common man
common person | a person who holds no title |
female
female person | a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies |
innocent
inexperienced person | a person who lacks knowledge of evil |
juvenile
juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed |
male
male person | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
| nonreligious person | a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity |
primitive
primitive person | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
| religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
unfortunate
unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune |
unwelcome person
persona non grata | a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome |
unpleasant person
disagreeable person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
| unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training |
person of color
person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
Black
Black person
blackamoor
Negro
Negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) |
colored person
colored | a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive |
White
White person
Caucasian | a member of the Caucasoid race |
Oriental
oriental person | a member of an Oriental race, the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans) |
| English person | a native or inhabitant of England |
Frenchman
Frenchwoman
French person | a person of French nationality |
Irish person
Irelander | a native or inhabitant of Ireland |
| abandoned person | someone for whom hope has been abandoned |
aliterate
aliterate person | a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources |
artist
creative person | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination |
| bad person | a person who does harm to others |
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 |
bisexual
bisexual person | a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes |
| blind person | a person with a severe visual impairment |
celebrity
famous person | a widely known person, he was a baseball celebrity |
| clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination |
crab
crabby person | a quarrelsome grouch |
dead person
dead soul
deceased person
deceased
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 |
displaced person
DP
stateless person | a person forced to flee from home or country |
dosser
street person | someone who sleeps in any convenient place |
| dummy silent person | a person who does not talk |
eccentric
eccentric person
flake
oddball
geek | a person with an unusual or odd personality |
| emotional person | a person subject to strong states of emotion |
| enlisted person | a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer |
fatso
fatty
fat person
roly-poly
butterball | a rotund individual |
freelancer
freelance
free-lance
free lance
independent
self-employed person | a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them |
| good person | a person who is good to other people |
| handicapped person | a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially |
hermaphrodite
intersex
gynandromorph
androgyne
epicene
epicene person | one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs, at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made |
heterosexual
heterosexual person
straight person
straight | a heterosexual person, someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex |
homeless
homeless person | someone unfortunate without housing, a homeless was found murdered in Central Park |
| hunted person | a person who is hunted |
ignoramus
know nothing
uneducated person | an ignorant person |
illiterate
illiterate person
nonreader | a person unable to read |
important person
influential person
personage | a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events |
incompetent
incompetent person | someone who is not competent to take effective action |
ingrate
thankless wretch
ungrateful person | a person who shows no gratitude |
initiate
learned person
pundit
savant | someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field |
insomniac
sleepless person | someone who cannot sleep |
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. |
| large person | a person of greater than average size |
literate
literate person | a person who can read and write |
failure
loser nonstarter
unsuccessful person | a person with a record of failing, someone who loses consistently |
meanie
meany
unkind person | a person of mean disposition |
mute
deaf-mute
deaf-and-dumb person | a deaf person who is unable to speak |
nude
nude person | a naked person |
oldster
old person
senior citizen
golden ager | an elderly person |
poor person
have-not | a person with few or no possessions |
professional
professional person | a person engaged in one of the learned professions |
psychotic
psychotic person
psycho | a person afflicted with psychosis |
| public relations person | a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public |
retiree
retired person | someone who has retired from active working |
rich person
wealthy person
have | a person who possesses great material wealth |
| disreputable person | someone lacking public esteem |
saint
holy man
holy person
angel | person of exceptional holiness |
scatterbrain
forgetful person | a flighty and disorganized person |
scholar
scholarly person
bookman
student | a learned person (especially in the humanities), someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines |
| selfish person | a person who is unusually selfish |
shy person
shrinking violet | someone who shrinks from familiarity with others |
sick person
diseased person
sufferer | a person suffering from an illness |
slob
sloven
pig slovenly person | a coarse obnoxious person |
| small person | a person of below average size |
spouse
partner married person
mate
better half | a person's partner in marriage |
stoic
unemotional person | someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions |
stupid
stupid person stupe
dullard dolt pudding head
pudden-head
poor fish
pillock | a person who is not very bright, The economy, stupid! |
thin person
skin and bones
scrag | a person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
| unemployed person | someone who is jobless |
very important person
VIP
high-up
dignitary
panjandrum
high muckamuck | an important or influential (and often overbearing) person |
| visually impaired person | someone who has inferior vision |
workman
workingman
working man
working person | an employee who performs manual or industrial labor |
young person
youth
younker
spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
| person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
man hour
person hour | a time unit used in industry for measuring work |
disabled
handicapped | incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness |
in-person
in the flesh(p) | an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence, he carried out the negotiations in person, a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh |
| person-to-person | involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties, a person-to-person interview, person-to-person telephone calls |
one-man(a)
one-person(a)
one-woman(a) | designed for or restricted to a single person, a one-man show, a one-person tent, Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show |