person : Idioms & Phrases

• one who regards or judges with partiality.

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• noun someone for whom hope has been abandoned
  

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• partiality, favoritism. See under Accept.

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• (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. Obs.

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• noun a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources
  aliterate.
  

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• (Law), a corporation or body politic. blackstone. = legal person

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• (Law). See under Person.

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• noun an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens
  AARP.
  

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• noun a person who does harm to others
  

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• noun a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved
  bereaved.
  
  • the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of

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• noun a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes
  bisexual.
  

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• noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
  Negroid; blackamoor; Black; Negro.
  

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• noun a person with a severe visual impairment
  

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• noun a person with poor motor coordination
  

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• noun a person unable to distinguish differences in hue
  

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• noun a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
  colored.
  

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• noun a person who holds no title
  common man; commoner.
  

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• noun a quarrelsome grouch
  crab.
  

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• noun a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
  artist.
  

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• noun someone who is no longer alive
  dead person; decedent; departed; dead soul; deceased.
  
  • I wonder what the dead person would have done

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• noun a person with a severe auditory impairment
  

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• noun a deaf person who is unable to speak
  deaf-mute; mute.
  

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• noun someone who is no longer alive
  dead person; decedent; departed; dead soul; deceased.
  
  • I wonder what the dead person would have done

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• noun a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
  disagreeable person.
  

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• noun a person suffering from an illness
  sufferer; diseased person.
  

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• noun a person forced to flee from home or country
  displaced person; DP.
  

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• noun someone lacking public esteem
  

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• noun a person with an unusual or odd personality
  eccentric; geek; oddball; flake.
  

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• noun a person subject to strong states of emotion
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of England
  

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• noun a serviceman who ranks below a commissioned officer
  

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• noun one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
  androgyne; intersex; gynandromorph; epicene; hermaphrodite.
  

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• noun a widely known person
  celebrity.
  
  • he was a baseball celebrity

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• noun a rotund individual
  roly-poly; butterball; fatty; fatso.
  

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• noun a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
  female.
  

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• noun pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur
  

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• adverb per person
  for each person; per capita.
  
  • we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district

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• noun a flighty and disorganized person
  scatterbrain.
  

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• noun a person of French nationality
  Frenchman; Frenchwoman.
  

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• noun a person who is good to other people
  

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• noun a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially
  

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• noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
  straight; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
  

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• noun person of exceptional holiness
  angel; saint; holy man.
  

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• noun someone unfortunate without housing
  homeless.
  
  • a homeless was found murdered in Central Park

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• noun a person who is hunted
  

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• noun a person unable to read
  illiterate; nonreader.
  

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• noun a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
  important person; personage.
  

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• adverb in the flesh; without involving anyone else
  personally.
  
  • I went there personally
  • he appeared in person

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• by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." Shak.

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• in the place of; acting for. Shak.

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• adjective satellite an appearance carried out personally in someone else's physical presence
  in the flesh.
  
  • he carried out the negotiations in person
  • a personal appearance is an appearance by a person in the flesh

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• noun someone who is not competent to take effective action
  incompetent.
  

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• noun a person who lacks knowledge of evil
  innocent.
  

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• noun a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
  important person; personage.
  

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• noun a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc.
  insured.
  

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• noun a native or inhabitant of Ireland
  Irelander.
  

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• noun a young person, not fully developed
  juvenile.
  

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• noun a person of greater than average size
  

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• noun someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
  initiate; savant; pundit.
  

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• noun a person who can read and write
  literate.
  

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• noun a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
  male.
  

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• noun a person's partner in marriage
  partner; spouse; mate; better half.
  

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• (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation.

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• noun a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity
  

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• noun a naked person
  nude.
  

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• adverb per person
  for each person; per capita.
  
  • we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district

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• noun an elderly person
  oldster; golden ager; senior citizen.
  

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• adjective satellite designed for or restricted to a single person
  one-man; one-woman.
  
  • a one-man show
  • a one-person tent
  • Sarah Silverman's hilarious one-woman show

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• noun a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
  Oriental.
  

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• noun agreement in person between pronouns and verbs
  

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• noun a time unit used in industry for measuring work
  man hour.
  

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• noun (formal) any non-European non-white person
  person of color.
  

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• noun (formal) any non-European non-white person
  person of color.
  

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• adjective satellite involving direct communication or contact between persons or parties
  
  • a person-to-person interview
  • person-to-person telephone calls
• adverb (of two persons) in direct encounter
  one-on-one.
  
  • preferred to settle the matter one-on-one
  • interviewed her person-to-person

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• noun a person with few or no possessions
  have-not.
  

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• noun a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
  primitive.
  

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• noun a person engaged in one of the learned professions
  professional.
  

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• noun a person afflicted with psychosis
  psychotic; psycho.
  

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• noun a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public
  

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• noun a person who manifests devotion to a deity
  

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• noun someone who has retired from active working
  retiree.
  

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• noun a person who possesses great material wealth
  rich person; have.
  

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• noun a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
  bookman; scholar; student.
  

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• noun pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur
  

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• noun a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
  independent; freelance; freelancer; free-lance; free lance.
  

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• noun a person who is unusually selfish
  

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• noun someone who shrinks from familiarity with others
  shrinking violet.
  

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• noun a person suffering from an illness
  sufferer; diseased person.
  

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• noun a person who does not talk
  dummy.
  

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• noun someone who cannot sleep
  insomniac.
  

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• noun a coarse obnoxious person
  sloven; slob; pig.
  

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• noun a person of below average size
  

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• noun a person forced to flee from home or country
  displaced person; DP.
  

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• noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
  straight; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
  

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• noun someone who sleeps in any convenient place
  dosser.
  

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• noun a person who is not very bright
  pillock; dullard; pudding head; poor fish; stupe; stupid; pudden-head; dolt.
  
  • The economy, stupid!

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• noun a person who is unusually thin and scrawny
  scrag; skin and bones.
  

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• noun pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur
  

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• (Gram.), the person spoken of. See Person, n., 7.

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• (Eccl.), to show favoritism. "God accepteth no man's person."

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• to allow him more or less liberty until it is convenient to stop or check him, like a hooked fish that swims away with the line.

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• to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especially on account of friendship, power, wealth, etc. "It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment." Prov. xxiv. 23.

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• to act, or to manage matters, to his advantage or benefit.

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• to favor a person, or persons on corrupt grounds; to show partiality. "Ye shall not respect persons in judgment." Deut. i. 17.

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• to smear him with tar and cover him with feathers, as a punishment or an indignity.

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• to adjust and fasten the clothing of; especially, to draw tight and tie the laces of garments. Obs. "Enter Honeysuckle, in his nightcap, trussing himself." J. Webster (1607).

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• noun an ignorant person
  ignoramus; know nothing.
  

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• noun someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
  stoic.
  

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• noun someone who is jobless
  

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• noun a person who suffers misfortune
  unfortunate.
  

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• noun a person who shows no gratitude
  ingrate; thankless wretch.
  

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• noun a person of mean disposition
  meanie; meany.
  

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• noun a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
  disagreeable person.
  

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• noun a person who lacks technical training
  

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• noun a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
  failure; nonstarter; loser.
  

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• noun a person who is unusual
  anomaly.
  

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• noun a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome
  persona non grata.
  

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• noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
  high muckamuck; high-up; dignitary; panjandrum; VIP.
  

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• noun someone who has inferior vision
  

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• noun a person who possesses great material wealth
  rich person; have.
  

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• noun a member of the Caucasoid race
  White; Caucasian.
  

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• noun an employee who performs manual or industrial labor
  workman; working man; workingman.
  

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• noun a young person (especially a young man or boy)
  youth; spring chicken; younker.
  

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