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 |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
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 |