#unfortunate_person__unfortunateperson__unfortunate a person who suffers misfortune
supertype: #person__individual__someone__somebody__mortal__human__human_being__humanbeing__soul a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
subtype: #abandoned_person__abandonedperson someone for whom hope has been abandoned
subtype: #castaway__shipwreck_survivor__shipwrecksurvivor a shipwrecked person
subtype: #amputee someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
subtype: #choker an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation; "he could win if he wasn't a choker"
subtype: #cripple someone whose legs are disabled
subtype: #humpback__hunchback__crookback a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine
subtype: #desperate a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
subtype: #goner a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
subtype: #homeless_person__homeless someone with no housing; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
subtype: #bag_lady__baglady a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags
subtype: #Job.unfortunate_person__job any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
subtype: #jonah__jinx a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
subtype: #languisher a person who languishes
subtype: #unsuccessful_person__failure__loser__nonstarter a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
subtype: #bankrupt__insolvent someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
subtype: #washout__flop__dud (informal) someone who is unsuccessful
subtype: #underdog one at a disadvantage and expected to lose
subtype: #mourner__griever__sorrower__lamenter a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
subtype: #pallbearer__bearer one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
subtype: #wailer a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
subtype: #weeper a hired mourner
subtype: #nympholept a person seized by nympholepsy
subtype: #outcast__castaway__pariah__Ishmael a person who is rejected (from society or home)
subtype: #misbeliever__heretic__religious_outcast__religiousoutcast a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
subtype: #leper a pariah who is avoided by others
subtype: #untouchable__Harijan belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
subtype: #poor_person__have-not a person with few or no possessions
subtype: #down-and-out a person who is destitute; "he tried to help the down-and-out"
subtype: #pauper__poor_man a person who is very poor
subtype: #beggar__mendicant a pauper who lives by begging
subtype: #beggarman a man who is a beggar
subtype: #beggarwoman a woman who is a beggar
subtype: #Lazarus the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
subtype: #moocher__cadger__scrounger someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
subtype: #panhandler a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money
subtype: #derelict a person unable to support himself
subtype: #starveling someone who is starving (or being starved)
subtype: #vagrant__drifter__floater a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
subtype: #beachcomber a vagrant living on a beach
subtype: #sundowner.vagrant (Australia) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
subtype: #hobo__tramp__bum a disreputable vagrant
subtype: #dosser__street_person someone who sleeps in any convenient place
subtype: #prisoner__captive a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
subtype: #jailbird__convict__con__inmate__gaolbird a person serving a prison sentence
subtype: #lifer a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
subtype: #political_detainee__politicaldetainee__detainee some held in custody
subtype: #hostage__surety a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
subtype: #internee a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"
subtype: #political_prisoner__politicalprisoner someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
subtype: #prisoner_of_war__POW a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war
subtype: #sick_person__diseased_person__diseasedperson__sufferer a person suffering from an illness
subtype: #anorexic__anorectic a person suffering from anorexia nervosa
subtype: #bulimic a person suffering from bulimia
subtype: #consumptive__lunger a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
subtype: #convalescent a person who is recovering from illness
subtype: #depressive someone suffering psychological depression
subtype: #melancholic__melancholiac someone subject to melancholia
subtype: #diabetic someone who has diabetes
subtype: #dyspeptic a person suffering from indigestion
subtype: #epileptic a person who has epilepsy
subtype: #hemophiliac__bleeder__haemophile someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding
subtype: #incurable a person whose disease is incurable
subtype: #insomniac__sleepless_person__sleeplessperson someone who cannot sleep
subtype: #invalid__shut-in someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
subtype: #lazar__leper a person afflicted with leprosy
subtype: #lunatic__madman__maniac an insane person
subtype: #crazy__loony__looney__weirdo someone deranged and possibly dangerous
subtype: #bedlamite an archaic term for a lunatic
subtype: #pyromaniac a person with a mania for setting things on fire
subtype: #madwoman a woman lunatic
subtype: #manic-depressive__manicdepressive a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness
subtype: #monomaniac a person suffering from monomania
subtype: #narcoleptic.sick_person a person who has narcolepsy
subtype: #neurasthenic a person suffering a nervous breakdown
subtype: #neurotic__psychoneurotic__mental_case a person suffering from neurosis
subtype: #hysteric a person suffering from hysteria
subtype: #sociopath__psychopath someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')
subtype: #patient a person who requires medical care; "the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly"
subtype: #alexic a person with alexia
subtype: #analysand a person undergoing psychoanalysis
subtype: #hypochondriac a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments
subtype: #inpatient__inmate a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated
subtype: #outpatient a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated
subtype: #vaccinee a patient who has been vaccinated
subtype: #psychotic_person__psychoticperson__psychotic__psycho a person afflicted with psychosis
subtype: #cataleptic a person suffering from catalepsy
subtype: #paranoid__paranoiac a person afflicted with paranoia
subtype: #schizophrenic someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia
subtype: #rheumatic a person suffering with rheumatism
subtype: #syphilitic a person suffering from syphilis
subtype: #valetudinarian weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
subtype: #vomiter__spewer a person who vomits
subtype: #subsister__survivor one who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital"
subtype: #victim an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
subtype: #injured_party__injuredparty__casualty someone injured or killed in an accident
subtype: #casualty.victim someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
subtype: #hunted_person a person who is hunted
subtype: #pursued__chased a person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued"
subtype: #sufferer__martyr one who suffers for the sake of principle
instance: #William_Tyndale__Tyndale__Tindale__William_Tindale__Tindal__William_Tindal
subtype: #martyr one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
instance: #Saint_Thomas_a_Becket__Becket__Thomas_a_Becket__St_Thomas_a_Becket #Saint_George__George__St_George #Jeanne_d'Arc__Joan_of_Arc__Saint_Joan #Saint_Lawrence__Lawrence__St_Lawrence__Laurentius #St_Vitus__Vitus
subtype: #muggee a victim of a mugging; "the law seems to give more protection to the mugger than to the muggee"
subtype: #murderee a victim who is murdered
subtype: #poor_devil__wretch someone you feel sorry for
subtype: #fair_game__prey__quarry__target a person who is the victim of ridicule or exploitation by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"
subtype: #scapegoat__whipping_boy someone punished for the errors of others
subtype: #weeper.unfortunate_person__crier a person who weeps
subtype: #bawler a loud weeper; "their new baby is a real bawler"
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