person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul

a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

• self — a person considered as a unique individual
• adult, grownup — a fully developed person from maturity onward
• adventurer, venturer — a person who enjoys taking risks
• anomaly, unusual person — 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
• commoner, common man, common person — 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
• disputant, controversialist — a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
• engineer, applied scientist, 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
• expert — a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
• face — (synecdoche) a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
• female, female person — a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
• individualist — a person who pursues independent thought or action
• inhabitant, dweller, denizen — a person who inhabits a particular place
• native, indigen, indigene — a person who was born in a particular place; an indigenous person
• innocent, inexperienced person — a person who lacks knowledge of evil
• intellectual, intellect — a person who uses the mind creatively
• juvenile, juvenile person — a youthful person
• lover — a person who loves or is loved
• leader — a person who rules or guides or inspires others
• male, male person — a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
• money handler, money dealer — a person who receives or invests or pays out money
• national, subject — a person who owes allegiance to that nation
• nonreligious person — a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
• nonworker — a person who does nothing
• peer, equal, match, compeer — a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
• perceiver, observer, beholder — a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
• percher — a person situated on a perch
• precursor, forerunner — a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
• primitive, primitive person — a person who belongs to early stage of civilization
• religionist, 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
• African — a native or inhabitant of Africa
• person of color, person of colour — (formal) any non-European non-White person
• White, white person, Caucasian — a member of the Caucasoid race
• Slav — any member of the people of Eastern Europe or Russian Asia 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
• European — a native or inhabitant of Europe
• 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 in 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 in 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
• abomination — a person who is loathsome or disgusting
• abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker — a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
• achiever, winner, success, succeeder — a person with a record of successes
• acquaintance, friend — a person with whom you are acquainted
• acquirer — a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
• actor, doer, worker — a person who acts and gets things done
• 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, opponent, opposer, resister — someone who offers opposition
• advisee — someone who receives advice
• advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent — a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
• affiant — a person who makes an affidavit
• amateur — someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime
• 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
• 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
• authority — (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
• autodidact — a person who is self-taught
• baby boomer, boomer — a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
• 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
• bedfellow — a person with whom you share a bed
• best, topper — the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
• biter — someone who bites
• blond, blonde — a person with fair skin and hair
• bodybuilder, musclebuilder — someone who does special exercises to develop the 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
• candidate, prospect — someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
• case — a person requiring professional services
• celebrant, celebrator, celebrater — a person who is celebrating
• charmer, beguiler — a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness)
• child, baby — an immature childish person
• clumsy person — a person with poor motor coordination
• collector, aggregator — a person who collects things
• combatant, battler, belligerent, 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
• copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper — someone who copies the words or behavior of another
• counter — a person who counts things
• crawler, creeper — a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
• creature, wight — 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
• dancer, social dancer — a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball)
• dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed — someone who is no longer alive
• debaser, degrader — a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins)
• debtor — a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt
• defecator, voider, shitter — 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
• dichromat — a person with any of the various forms of dichromacy
• differentiator, discriminator — a person who differentiates
• disentangler, unraveler, unraveller — a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state
• dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant — a person who dissents from some established policy
• divider — a person who separates something into parts or groups
• double, image, look-alike — someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
• dresser — a person who dresses in a particular way
• dribbler, driveller, slobberer, drooler — a person who dribbles; he needs a bib"
• drug user, substance abuser, user — a person who takes drugs
• ectomorph — a person with a thin non-muscular 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
• 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
• explorer, adventurer — someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)
• faddist — a person who subscribes to a variety of fads
• faller — a person who falls
• fastener — a person who fastens or makes fast
• fiduciary — a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary
• first-rater — one who is first-rate
• follower — an ordinary person who accepts the leadership of another
• free agent, free spirit, freewheeler — someone acting freely or even irresponsibly
• friend — a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
• fugitive, runaway — someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
• gainer — a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits)
• gainer, weight gainer — a person who gains weight
• gambler — a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events
• gatherer — a person who gathers
• 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
• 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 handicap that interferes with normal functions
• hater — a person who hates
• heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person, straight — a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
• homosexual, homo, gay — 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
• hoper — a person who hopes
• huddler — a person who crouches
• hugger — a person who hugs
• immune — a person who is immune to a particular infection
• interpreter — someone who uses art to represent something
• jewel, gem — a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry
• killer, slayer — someone who causes the death of a person or animal
• relative, relation — a person related by blood or marriage
• kneeler — a person in a kneeling position
• knocker — a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)
• knower, apprehender — a person who knows or apprehends
• large person — a person of greater than average size
• laugher — a person who is laughing or who laughs easily
• learner, scholar, assimilator — someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
• left-hander, lefty, southpaw — a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right
• life — a living person
• lightning rod — someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another
• linguist, polyglot — 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
• longer, thirster, yearner — a person with a strong desire for something
• loose cannon — a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous
• machine — an efficient person
• 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
• manipulator — a person who handles things manually
• man jack — a single individual
• 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
• mestizo — a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
• middlebrow — (informal) 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
• mutilator, maimer, mangler — a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples
• namer — a person who gives a name or names
• 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
• 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
• nonsmoker — a person who does not smoke tobacco
• nude, nude person — a naked person
• nurser — a person who treats something carefully
• occultist — some who practices the occult arts
• old maid — a person who is primly fastidious
• ouster, ejector — 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)
• owner, possessor — a person who owns something
• pamperer, spoiler — someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence
• pardoner, forgiver, excuser — 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
• 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
• personification — a person who represents an abstract quality
• perspirer, sweater — a person who perspires
• philosopher — a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity
• picker, chooser, selector — a person who chooses or selects out
• pisser, urinator — a person who urinates
• planner, contriver, deviser — a person who makes plans
• 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
• pursuer — a person who pursues some plan or goal
• pussycat — a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable
• quarter — an unspecified person
• quitter — a person who gives up too easily
• rectifier — a person who corrects or sets right
• redhead, redheader, carrottop — someone who has red hair
• registrant — a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)
• reliever, allayer, comforter — a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
• repeater — a person who repeats
• rescuer, recoverer, saver — someone who saves something from danger or violence
• rester — a person who rests
• restrainer, controller — a person who directs and restrains
• rich person, wealthy person, have — a person who possesses great material wealth
• right-hander — a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left
• riser — a person who rises (especially from bed)
• romper — a person who romps or frolics
• roundhead — a brachycephalic person
• ruler, swayer — a person who rules or commands
• rusher — a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously
• scratcher — a person who scratches to relieve an itch
• second-rater, mediocrity — a person of second-rate ability or value
• seeder, cloud seeder — a person who seeds clouds
• seeker, searcher, quester — someone making a search or inquiry
• sentimentalist, romanticist — someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
• sex object — any person regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification
• shaker, mover and shaker — a person who wields power and influence
• signer, signatory — someone who signs and is bound by a document
• significant other — a person with whom you have shared a long-term sexual relationship
• 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
• 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)
• socializer, socialiser — a person who takes part in social activities
• sort — a person of a particular character or nature
• sounding board — a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability
• sphinx — an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
• spitter, expectorator — a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
• sprawler — a person who sprawls
• spurner — a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt
• squinter, squint-eye — a person with strabismus
• stifler, smotherer — a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses
• 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
• struggler — a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort
• subject, case, guinea pig — a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
• surrenderer, yielder — a person who yields or surrenders
• survivor — one who outlives another
• suspect — someone who is under suspicion
• tapper — a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
• tempter — a person who tempts others
• termer — a person who serves a specified term
• terror, scourge, threat — a person who inspires fear or dread
• testator, testate — a person who makes a will
• thin person, skin and bones — a person who is unusually thin
• third-rater — one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior
• thrower — someone who projects something through the air (especially by a rapid motion of the arm)
• tiger — a fierce or audacious person
• 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
• transsexual — a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
• transvestite, cross-dresser — someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex
• trier, attempter, essayer — one who tries
• undoer, opener, unfastener, untier — a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
• user — a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
• vanisher — a person who disappears
• victim, dupe — a person who is tricked or swindled
• Victorian — a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
• waiter — a person who waits or awaits
• waker — a person who awakes
• wanter, needer — a person who wants or needs something
• 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
• weakling, doormat, wuss — a person who is physically weak and ineffectual
• wiggler, wriggler, squirmer — one who can't stay still (especially a child)
• winker — a person who winks
• withholder — a person who refrains from granting
• witness — (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law
• yawner — a person who yawns

• organism, being — a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
• causal agent, cause, causal agency — any entity that causes events to happen

• personality — the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
• human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh — alternative names for the body of a human being

• people — (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively