Individual
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English
Noun
Individual (plural Individuals)- A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- He is an unusual individual.
- An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
Adjective
Individual (comparative more Individual, superlative most Individual)
- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
- Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
- individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
Synonyms
- (1): single, selfstanding
- (2): personal, single
Antonyms
- (1): collective
- (2): group, joint, shared
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Adjectives for Individual
happy-looking; erratic; numerable; jocular; distinguished; determinate; obscure; coatless; dismal; intelligent; unchanged; transfigured; progressive; independent; self-centered; disciplined; tattered; troublesome; reasonable; bellicose; enfeebled; conservative; irresponsible; thinking; noxious; adventurous; acquisitive; privileged; enthusiastic; laborious; intoxicated; gifted; uncommon; dignified; arrogant; vanishing; unworthy; ill-conducted; beef-faced; unlucky; scant-haired; hardy; amoral; fearless; quiet-spoken; remarkable; enterprising; under-slung; myriad (pi); peculiar; famed; delightful; relaxed, maladjusted; hesitant; harmonious; unprepared; unhappy; perverse.
Verbs for Individual
bth to—; characterize—; depend on—; direct to—; dwarf—; ignore—; incense—; insulate—; intrude on—; isolate—; mold—; shape—; support—; —achieves; —strives.
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
Etymology
From Medieval Latin individualis < Latin individuum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of individuus (“indivisible, undivided”) < in + dividuus (“divisible”) < divido (“divide”).
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External links
- Individual in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Individual in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: silent · takes · honour · #806: individual · girls · wall · cry
Galician
Adjective
Individual m. (feminine individual, plural individuais)
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