'Individual' definitions:
Definition of 'individual'
From: WordNet
adjective
Being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn: individual, single] [ant: common]
adjective
Separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis" [syn: individual, case-by-case, item-by-item]
adjective
Characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, single(a)]
adjective
Concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: individual(a), private]
noun
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
noun
A single organism
Definition of 'Individual'
From: GCIDE
- Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\, n.
- 1. A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- An object which is in the strict and primary sense one, and can not be logically divided, is called an individual. --Whately. [1913 Webster]
- That individuals die, his will ordains. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) (a) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. (b) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Individual'
From: GCIDE
- Individual \In`di*vid"u*al\ (?; 135), a. [L. individuus indivisible; pref. in- not + dividuus divisible, fr. dividere to divide: cf. F. individuel. See Divide.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city. [1913 Webster]
- Mind has a being of its own, distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster]
- United as one individual soul. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'individual'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a certain,
- absolute,
- Adamite,
- 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