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individual
noun
1 individual
A human being.
synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul.
Roget 87:
unity;
oneness
etc.
adj.;
individuality;
solitude
etc.
(seclusion)
893;
isolation
etc.
(disjunction)
44;
unification
etc.
48.
one,
unit,
ace;
individual;
none else,
no other.
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Roget 372:
man,
mankind;
human race,
human species,
human kind,
human nature;
humanity,
mortality,
flesh,
generation.
[Science of man]
anthropology,
anthropogeny†,
anthropography†,
anthroposophy†;
ethnology,
ethnography;
humanitarian.
human being;
person,
personage;
individual,
creature,
fellow creature,
mortal,
body,
somebody;
one;
such a one,
some one;
soul,
living soul;
earthling;
party,
head,
hand;
dramatis personae [Lat.];
quidam [Lat.].
people,
persons,
folk,
public,
society,
world;
community,
community at large;
general public;
nation,
nationality;
state,
realm;
commonweal,
commonwealth;
republic,
body politic;
million
etc.
(commonalty)
876;
population
etc.
(inhabitant)
188.
tribe,
clan
(paternity)
166;
family
(consanguinity)
11.
cosmopolite;
lords of the creation;
ourselves.
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is a specific kind of: being, organism | causal agency, causal agent, cause.
is a broader term that covers: self | adult, grownup | adventurer, venturer | anomaly, unusual person | anachronism | applicant, applier | appointee, appointment | capitalist | captor, capturer | changer, modifier | color-blind person | common man, common person, commoner | communicator | contestant | coward | creator | controversialist, disputant, eristic | applied scientist, engineer, technologist | entertainer | experimenter | expert | face | female, female person | gipsy, gypsy | individualist | denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant | aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native | native | inexperienced person, innocent | intellect, intellectual | juvenile, juvenile person | lover | loved one | leader | male, male person | money dealer, money handler | national, subject | nonreligious person | nonworker | compeer, equal, match, peer | beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient | percher | forerunner, precursor | primitive, primitive person | religious person | sensualist | traveler, traveller | unfortunate, unfortunate person | persona non grata, unwelcome person | unskilled person | worker | African | person of color, person of colour | African-American, Black, Negro, Negroid | Caucasian, White, White person | Amerindian, Native American | Slav | gentile | Hebrew, Israelite, Jew | Aries, Ram | Bull, Taurus | Gemini, Twin | Cancer, Crab | Leo, Lion | Virgin, Virgo | Balance, Libra | Scorpio, Scorpion | Archer, Sagittarius | Capricorn, Goat | Aquarius, Water Bearer | Fish, Pisces | abator | abjurer | abomination | abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker | achiever, succeeder, success, winner | acquaintance, friend | acquirer | active | actor, doer, worker | adjudicator | admirer | adoptee | adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister | advisee | advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | affiant | agnostic, doubter | albino | amateur | ancient | anti | anti-American | apprehender | appreciator | archaist | arrogator | assessee | asthmatic | authority | autodidact | automaton, zombi, zombie | baby boomer, boomer | baby buster, buster | bad guy | bad person | baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead | balker, baulker, noncompliant | bullfighter, toreador | bather | beard | bedfellow | bereaved, bereaved person | best, topper | birth | biter | blogger | blond, blonde | bluecoat | bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman | bomber | brunet, brunette | buster | candidate, prospect | case | cashier | celebrant, celebrater, celebrator | censor | chameleon | beguiler, charmer | baby, child | chutzpanik | closer | clumsy person | aggregator, collector | battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper | complexifier | compulsive | computer user | contemplative | convert | ape, aper, copycat, emulator, imitator | counter | counterterrorist | crawler, creeper | creature, wight | creditor | cripple | dancer, social dancer | dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed | deaf person | debaser, degrader | debitor, debtor | defecator, shitter, voider | delayer | deliverer | demander | dieter | differentiator, discriminator | disentangler, unraveler, unraveller | contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector, protester | divider | domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent | double, image, look-alike | dresser | dribbler, driveller, drooler, slobberer | drug user, substance abuser, user | dyslectic, dyslexic | eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek, oddball | ectomorph | effecter, effector | Elizabethan | emotional person | endomorph | enjoyer | enrollee | ethnic | adventurer, explorer | extravert, extrovert | faddist | faller | fastener | fiduciary | first-rater | follower | free agent, free spirit, freewheeler | friend | fleer, fugitive, runaway | gainer | gainer, weight gainer | gambler | gatekeeper | gatherer | good guy | good person | granter | greeter, saluter, welcomer | grinner | groaner | grunter | guesser | handicapped person | hater | heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person | gay, homo, homophile, homosexual | homunculus | hope | hoper | huddler | hugger | immune | insured, insured person | interpreter | introvert | Jat | gem, jewel | jumper | junior | killer, slayer | relation, relative | kink | kneeler | knocker | apprehender, knower | kook, odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck | large person | Latin | laugher | assimilator, learner, scholar | left-hander, lefty, southpaw | life | lightning rod | linguist, polyglot | literate, literate person | liver | longer, thirster, yearner | loose cannon | machine | mailer | malcontent | man | manipulator | man jack | married | masturbator, onanist | measurer | nonmember | mesomorph | mestizo | middlebrow | miracle man, miracle worker | misfit | misogamist | mixed-blood | modern | monolingual | mother hen | mouse | maimer, mangler, mutilator | namer | namesake | neglecter | neighbor, neighbour | neutral | nondescript | nonparticipant | nonpartisan, nonpartizan | nonperson, unperson | nonresident | nonsmoker | nude, nude person | nurser | occultist | optimist | orphan | ostrich | ejector, ouster | outcaste | outdoorsman | owner, possessor | coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler | pansexual | excuser, forgiver, pardoner | partner | party | passer | personage | personification | perspirer, sweater | philosopher | chooser, picker, selector | pisser, urinator | contriver, deviser, planner | player | posturer | powderer | preserver | propositus | public relations person | pursuer | pussycat | quarter | quitter | radical | rara avis, rare bird | realist | rectifier | carrottop, red-header, redhead, redheader | registrant | allayer, comforter, reliever | repeater | recoverer, rescuer, saver | rester | controller, restrainer | revenant | have, rich person, wealthy person | right-hander, right hander, righthander | riser | romper | roundhead | ruler, swayer | rusher | scientist | scratcher | mediocrity, second-rater | cloud seeder, seeder | quester, searcher, seeker | segregate | romanticist, sentimentalist | sex object | sex symbol | mover and shaker, shaker | showman | signatory, signer | simple, simpleton | six-footer | skidder, slider, slipper | slave | slave | sleepyhead | sloucher | small person | smasher | smiler | sneezer | sniffer | sniffler, sniveler | snuffer | snuffler | socialiser, socializer | sort | sounding board | sphinx | expectorator, spitter | sport | sprawler | spurner | squint-eye, squinter | smotherer, stifler | stigmatic, stigmatist | stooper | stranger | struggler | case, guinea pig, subject | supernumerary | surrenderer, yielder | survivalist | survivor | suspect | tagger | tagger | tapper | tempter | termer | scourge, terror, threat | testate, testator | scrag, skin and bones, thin person | third-rater | thrower | tiger | totemist | toucher | transfer, transferee | transexual, transsexual | transexual, transgendered, transsexual | cross-dresser, transvestite | attempter, essayer, trier | turner | tyrant | ugly duckling | opener, undoer, unfastener, untier | user | vanisher | dupe, victim | Victorian | visionary | visually impaired person | waiter | waker | walk-in | needer, wanter | ward | warrior | watcher | doormat, weakling, wuss | weasel | squirmer, wiggler, wriggler | winker | withholder | witness | worldling | yawner ... show more.
has as a part: personality | anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma.
is a member of: people.
derivation: personhood | individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize | personate, personify | mortal.
Dutch: deze of gene, figuur, iemand, individu, man, mens, persoon
Polish: persona, jednostka, człowiek, osoba, istota rozumna, istota ludzka
2 individual
adjective
1 individual
Being or characteristic of a single thing or person:
— Individual drops of rain.
— Please mark the individual pages.
— They went their individual ways.
synonym: single.
Roget 550:
indicating
etc.
v.,
indicative,
indicatory;
denotative,
connotative;
diacritical,
representative,
typical,
symbolic,
pantomimic,
pathognomonic†,
symptomatic,
characteristic,
demonstrative,
diagnostic,
exponential,
emblematic,
armorial;
individual
etc.
(special)
79.
known by,
recognizable by;
indicated
etc.
v.;
pointed,
marked.
[Capable of being denoted]
denotable†;
indelible.
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Roget 50:
whole,
total,
integral,
entire;
complete
etc.
52;
one,
individual.
unbroken,
intact,
uncut,
undivided,
unsevered†,
unclipped†,
uncropped,
unshorn;
seamless;
undiminished;
undemolished,
undissolved,
undestroyed,
unbruised.
indivisible,
indissoluble,
indissolvable†,
indiscerptible†.
wholesale,
sweeping;
comprehensive.
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Roget 87:
one,
sole,
single,
solitary,
unitary;
individual,
apart,
alone;
kithless†.
unaccompanied,
unattended;
solus [Lat.],
single-handed;
singular,
odd,
unique,
unrepeated†,
azygous,
first and last;
isolated
etc.
(disjoined)
44;
insular.
monospermous†;
unific†,
uniflorous†,
unifoliate†,
unigenital†,
uniliteral†,
unijocular†,
unimodal [Math.],
unimodular†.
lone,
lonely,
lonesome;
desolate,
dreary.
insecable†,
inseverable†,
indiscerptible†;
compact,
indivisible,
atomic,
irresolvable†.
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Roget 372:
human,
mortal,
personal,
individual,
national,
civic,
public,
social;
cosmopolitan;
anthropoid.
Polish: indywidualny
2 individual
Separate and distinct from others of the same kind:
— Mark the individual pages.
synonyms: case-by-case, item-by-item.
Polish: indywidualny
3 individual
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing:
— An individual serving.
synonym: single.
Polish: jednoosobowy, pojedynczy
4 individual
Concerning one person exclusively:
— We all have individual cars.
synonym: private.
Roget 79:
special,
particular,
individual,
specific,
proper,
personal,
original,
private,
respective,
definite,
determinate,
especial,
certain,
esoteric,
endemic,
partial,
party,
peculiar,
appropriate,
several,
characteristic,
diagnostic,
exclusive;
singular
etc.
(exceptional)
83;
idiomatic;
idiotypical;
typical.
this,
that;
yon,
yonder.
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Moby thesaurus: Adamite, a certain, absolute, aerobic organism, an, an existence, anaerobic organism, any, any one, article, atomic, autotrophic organism, being, body, cat, certain, chap, character, characteristic, concrete, connotative, creature, critter, customer, defined, definite, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, designative, detailed, determinate, diagnostic, different, discrete, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, duck, earthling, either, emblematic, entelechy, entity, esoteric, especial, evidential, exceptional, exclusive, exhibitive, existence, existent, express, expressive, extraordinary, fellow, figural, figurative, fixed, genetic individual, groundling, guy, hand, head, heterotrophic organism, homo, human, human being, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individualistic, indivisible, inner, integer, integral, intimate, irreducible, item, joker, life, living being, living soul, living thing, lone, man, material, matter, meaningful, metaphorical, microbe, microorganism, minute, module, monad, monadic, monistic, morphological individual, mortal, naming, nose, noteworthy, object, one, ont, organic being, organism, organization, own, particular, party, pathognomonic, peculiar, person, persona, personage, personal, personality, physiological individual, point, precise, private, proper, representative, respective, semantic, semiotic, separate, several, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, simple, single, singleton, singular, sole, solid, solipsistic, solitary, somebody, someone, something, soul, special, specific, stuff, substance, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, tellurian, terran, thing, typical, unanalyzable, undivided, uniform, unique, unit, unitary, virus, whole, worldling, zooid, zoon ... show more.
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