unfortunate person
Noun
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A person who suffers misfortune (synset 109653829)
subtypes:
- abandoned person - someone for whom hope has been abandoned
- amputee - someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
- choker - an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation
- desperate - a person who is frightened and in need of help
- homeless, homeless person - someone unfortunate without housing
- job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
- jinx, jonah - a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
- languisher - a person who languishes
- failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person - a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- maroon - a person who is stranded (as on an island)
- griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower - a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
- nympholept - a person seized by nympholepsy
- castaway, ishmael, outcast, pariah - a person who is rejected (from society or home)
- have-not, poor person - a person with few or no possessions
- captive, prisoner - a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
- schlimazel, shlimazel - (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
- diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
- subsister, survivor - one who lives through affliction
- victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
- crier, weeper - a person who weeps
same as: unfortunate
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