English-One-Words-Persons

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Person

Altruist Alover of mankind,An unselfish person who works for the welfare of poeple

Syn:Philanthropist,Samaritan 

Agnostic  One who is not sure about God's existence, Notsure either the existence or the nonexistence of god

Agnostic Vs Atheist 

Atheist:someone who does not believe in the existence of a god or a 

Agnostic:someone who doesn’t know whether there is a god 

Amateur:One who does for pleasure and does'nt take as a profession

one who engages in study,sport as a pastime rather than a profession

Ambidexterous  one who can use either hand easily or with ease

Anarchist   One who want to destroy all governments, peace and                           order a person who is against any authority, established                       order

Apostate      A person who has changed his faith or start believing in                      other than his old one

Syn:             defector, deserter, recreant, renegade

Arbitrator     A person appointed to solve a dispute or 

Syn:            adjudicator, arbiter, judge, referee, umpire,

Ascetic        One who leads an austere of difficult life or practicing                        strict discipline

Atheist         A person who doesn't believe in existance of god

Bigot          The person one who is filled with high enthusiasm in religious matters

Syn.            Fanatic,dogmatist, dogmatizer, partisan,sectarian

Bohemian      An uncoventional style of livinga person (such as a                            writer or an artist) living an unconventional life  in a                            colony with others

Cacographist   One who is not good or bad in spellings

Cannibal          One who feeds on or live on human flesh

Carnivorous      One who feeds on or live on flesh

Chauvinist      A person who is blindly devoted to an idea,

                      An attitude of superiority toward members of the                                 opposite sex,excessive or blind patriotism

Syn:                jingoism, nationalism, superpatriotism

Connoisseur         A critial judge of any art and craft

Syn:                    judge,cognoscente, dilettante

Contemporaries     living at the same time,happening, existing,                                         living, or coming into being during the same                                       period of time

Syn:                       coetaneous, coeval, coexistent,                                                             coextensive, coincident,concurrent,                                                    contemporaneous,simultaneous,synchronic,

Convalescent       Who is recovering health after illness, to recover                                health gradually after sickness 

Coquette             Woman who flirts with men

Cosmopolitan     Who regards the whole world as his country

Cynosure             One who is a centre of attraction or most attractive

Suave                 Polished person

Syn                 debonair, smooth, sophisticated, svelte, urbane

Ant               boorish, churlish, classless, clownish, loutish, uncouth

Demagogue    A leader who sways his followers by his oratory

Dilettante      Dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature

Effeminate     Man who is womanish in his habits

 Egoist           A lover of oneself

Syn:           egocentric, egomaniac, egotist, narcissist

Egotist        One who often talks of his achievements

Emigrant      A person who leaves his country to settle in another country (Ant.-Immigrant) departing or having departed from a country to settle elsewhere

Epicure     One who is for the pleasure or feel pleassure of eating and drinking

Fastidious  One hard to please (very selective in his habits)

Fatalist       One who believes in fate

Feminist      One who works for the welfare of women

Syn              Philogynist

Fugitive      One who runs away from justice

Gourmand    A lover of good food,one who is excessively fond of                          eating and drinking

Ex:               epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gastronomist, gourmet

Gourmet        A connoisseur of food

Henpecked    A husband ruled by his wife

Hedonist        One who believes that sensual pleasure is the chief                            good,a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure

Heretic          One who acts against religion,A person who differs in                       opinion from established religious

Herbivorous    One that lives on herbs

Honorary         One who holds a post or works without having any salary

Highbrow       A person considering himself to be superior in culture and intellect,a person who possesses or has pretensions to superior learning or culture

Syn                 Snob,geek, intellectual, intellectualist, longhair, nerd)

Hypochondriac  One who is over anxious about his health

 Iconoclast        One who is breaker of old traditions and images 

 Illiterate            One who does not know reading or writing  

 Impregnable      That cannot be entered by force 

 Impostor            One who pretends to be somebody else,one that                                 assumes false identity or title for the purpose of                                   deception

Syn:                charlatan, fake, faker, fakir, fraud, hoaxer, humbug,                                mountebank, phony, pretender, quack,                

 Indefatigable  One who does not tire easily

 Introvert          One who does not express himself freely

 Insolvent       A person who is unable to pay his debts,unable to pay                         debts as they fall due in the usual course of business Syn                Bankrupt

Itinerant         One who journeys from place to place 

Syn:                Nomadic,ambulant, errant, peregrine, peripatetic,                          ranging, roaming, roving, vagabond, vagrant, wandering

Invincible      one too strong to be defeated (Ant.-Vincible)

Martyr           one who dies for a noble cause

Mercenary    one who does for the sake of money (bad sense)

Syn:              avaricious, avid covetous, grabby, greedy, moneygrubbing, rapacious

 Misanthrope one who hates mankind (Ant.-Philanthropist)

 Misogamist one who hates the institution of marriage

 Misologist  one who hates knowledge (Ant.-Bibliologist)

 Namesake  a person who has the same name like as another

 Narcissist Lover of self, an extremely self-centered person who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance,ego-tripper, egocentric, egoist, egomaniac, egotist

 Novice one who is inexperienced in anything (Syn.-Tyro)

 Numismatist  one who collects coins

 Omnivorous one who eats everything

 Optimist a person who looks at the bright side of things

(Ant.-Pessimist)

 Orphan          one who has lost one's parents or living without parents

 Philanthropist one who loves mankind (Ant.-Misanthrope)

 Philogynist one who works for the welfare of women (Ant.-Misogynist)

 Polyglot one who speaks many languages (Syn.-Linguist)

 Pacifist       One who hates war and loves peace

 Pessimist one who looks at the dark side of life (Ant.-Optimist)

 Philanderer one who amuses oneself by love making

 Philistine     One who doesn't care for literature and art 

 Posthumous A child born after the death of father,born after the death of the father,published after the death of the author

 Philatelist      one who collects stamps 

 Pedestrian one who goes on foot

 RecluseOne who lives in seclusion,anchorite, eremite, hermit, isolate, solitary

 Sadist a person who feels pleasure by hurting others,a person who takes pleasure in inflicting pain, punishment, or humiliation on others

 Samaritan one who helps the needy and the helpless

 Sompambulist a person who walks in sleep,an abnormal condition of sleep

 Somniloquist a person who talks in sleep

 Stoic a person who is indifferent to pain and pleasures of life

 Swashbuckler a boastful fellow

 Teetotaller one who does not take any intoxicating drugs,abstainer, nondrinker, teetotalist

 Termagant   A noisy quarrelsome woman, a shrew

 Truant       The person one who remains absent from duty without permission or one who stays out of school without permission,one who shirks duty or negligent of duty

Toper/Sot     one who is a habitual drunkard

Uxorious      one extremely fond of one's wife

Veteran       one who has a long experience in any field or ocupation

Versatile     one who adapts oneself  to various situations

Virtuoso     one who is brilliant performer on stage (specially music),one who excels in the technique of an art

Volunteer     one who offers one's services

 Verbose      a style face of difficult words. (maestro),

Synonyms   circumlocutory,  garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded,                            pleonastic, prolix, rambling, windy, wordy

Antonyms

compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse