#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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