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 |