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Another word for individual

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Adjective

  1. Belonging to, relating to, or affecting a particular person

      1. Secluded from the sight, presence, or intrusion of others:
      2. Designed or intended for one's exclusive use:
      3. Of or confined to the individual; personal:
      1. Of or relating to a particular person; private:
      2. Done, made, or performed in person:
      3. Done to or for or directed toward a particular person:
    See also:

    specific

  2. Being or related to a distinct entity

      1. Being only one; individual; lone:
      2. Being the only one of a kind; unique:
      3. Being beyond what is ordinary, especially in being exceptionally good; remarkable:
      1. Not accompanied by another or others; solitary.
      2. Consisting of one part, aspect, or section:
      3. Having the same application for all; uniform:
      1. To set, force, or keep apart:
      2. To put space between; space apart or scatter:
      3. To form a border or barrier between (two areas or groups):
      1. Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal:
      2. Distinctive among others of the same group, category, or nature; noteworthy or exceptional:
      3. Of, relating to, or providing details; precise:
      1. Constituting a separate thing:
      2. Consisting of unconnected distinct parts:
      3. Defined for a finite or countable set of values; not continuous.
    See also:

    include

  3. Serving to identify or set apart an individual or group

      1. The yield of wine or grapes from a vineyard or district during one season.
      2. Wine, usually of high quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
      3. The year or place in which a wine is bottled.
      1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category:
      2. Of or relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive.
      3. Conforming to a type:
      1. Not ordinary or usual; odd or strange:
      2. Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique:
      3. A privilege or property that is exclusively one's own.
      1. Serving to identify; distinguishing or characteristic:
      2. Distinguished or attractive:
      3. Phonemically relevant and capable of conveying a difference in meaning, as nasalization in the initial sound of mat versus bat.
      1. Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive:
      2. A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.
      3. The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa:
    See also:

    same

  4. Of, relating to, or intended for a distinctive thing or group

      1. Explicitly set forth; definite:
      2. Clear or detailed in communicating:
      3. Limited, distinctive, or unique:
      1. Surpassing what is common or usual; exceptional:
      2. Distinct among others of a kind:
      3. Primary:
      1. Of, belonging to, or associated with a specific person, group, thing, or category; not general or universal:
      2. Distinctive among others of the same group, category, or nature; noteworthy or exceptional:
      3. Of, relating to, or providing details; precise:
      1. Of special importance or significance; exceptional:
      2. Relating to or directed toward a particular person, group, or purpose:
      3. Peculiar to the individual; characteristic:
    See also:

    specific

Noun

  1. A member of the human race

      1. A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
      2. This part of a human when disembodied after death.
      3. In Aristotelian philosophy, an animating or vital principle inherent in living things and endowing them in various degrees with the potential to grow and reproduce, to move and respond to stimuli (as in the case of animals), and to think rationally (as in the case of humans).
      1. A character in a literary work.
      2. A person.
      3. A person of distinction.
      1. A living human. Often used in combination:
      2. An individual of specified character:
      3. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
      1. A social gathering especially for pleasure or amusement:
      2. A group of people who have gathered to participate in an activity:
      3. A group of soldiers selected for a duty or mission:
      1. Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
      2. Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
      3. Causing death; fatal:
      1. An adult male human.
      2. A human regardless of sex or age; a person.
      3. A human or an adult male human belonging to a specific occupation, group, nationality, or other category. Often used in combination:
      1. The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
      2. The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
      3. Living organisms considered as a group:
      1. A member of the primate genus Homo, especially a member of the species Homo sapiens, distinguished from other apes by a large brain and the capacity for speech.
      2. A person:
      3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans:
      1. Used as a disparaging term for a gay man or lesbian.
      1. A living being, especially an animal:
      2. A human.
      3. An imaginary or fantastical being:
      1. The entire material or physical structure of an organism, especially of a human or animal.
      2. The physical aspect of a person as opposed to the spirit; the flesh.
      3. A corpse or carcass.
      1. The state or quality of having existence:
      2. The totality of all things that exist:
      3. A person:
    See also:

    beings

  2. One that exists independently

    See also:

    thing

    be

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Another word for individual

Modifier

  1. Separate

    See also:

    special

    private

    Antonyms:

  2. Unusual

    See also:

    characteristic

    unusual

    unique

    different

Noun
  1. See also:

    woman

    person

    man

    child

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Sentence Examples

  • How do you find individual cases?

  • Frequently, this includes individual liberty and freedom of expression.

  • Sarah said, I thought we would make individual stone pies tonight.

  • At the advent of each individual into this life, may we not suppose that such a bar has risen to the surface somewhere?

  • Electronic transfers mean the money of a government, business, or individual might be anywhere at any time.

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