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A being is any living creature, from a person to a bug. Being also refers to the state of existing.

"To be, or not to be" — that is the question when you're talking about being. Things that exist are in a state of being: this meaning of being is a little vague, but it has to do with the way things are alive and real. The other meaning is easier: beings are living things. Every person is a being, and so is every animal. Beings are no longer in a state of being when they're dead.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: being

1	n	the state or fact of existing
2	n	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: being

n the state or fact of existing

“a point of view gradually coming into being”

Synonyms:: beingness, existence

Antonyms:: nonbeing
the state of not being; nonentity, nonexistence
the state of not existing; show more antonyms...

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the state of actually existing objectively; eternity, timeless existence, timelessness
a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife; preexistence
existing in a former state or previous to something else; coexistence
existing peacefully together; subsistence
the state of existing in reality; having substance; presence
the state of being present; current existence; life
the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; aliveness, animation, life, living
the condition of living or the state of being alive; life
a characteristic state or mode of living; transcendence, transcendency
a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience; possibility, possibleness
capability of existing or happening or being true; entelechy
(Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality; genuineness
the state of being genuine; realism, reality, realness
the state of being actual or real; reality
the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; the true, trueness, truth, verity
conformity to reality or actuality; eternal life, life eternal
life without beginning or end; immanence, immanency
the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain; inherence, inherency
the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic; ubiety
the state of existing and being localized in space; omnipresence, ubiquitousness, ubiquity
the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once); hereness
the state of being here in this place; thereness
the state of being there--not here--in position; thereness
real existence; occurrence
an instance of something occurring; shadow
a dominating and pervasive presence; skin
a person's skin regarded as their life; endurance, survival
a state of surviving; remaining alive; ghetto
any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; conceivability, conceivableness
the state of being conceivable; achievability, attainability, attainableness
the state of being achievable; potency, potential, potentiality
the inherent capacity for coming into being; chance, opportunity
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

Type of:: state
the way something is with respect to its main attributes

n a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Synonyms:: organism

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organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea; dwarf
a plant or animal that is atypically small; heterotroph
an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition; parent
an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained; individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being; animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement; flora, plant, plant life
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; native
indigenous plants and animals; recombinant
a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred; conspecific
an organism belonging to the same species as another organism; carrier
(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring; denizen
a plant or animal naturalized in a region; amphidiploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent; diploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; haploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes; heteroploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species; polyploid
(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes; animalcule, animalculum
microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium; micro-organism, microorganism
any organism of microscopic size; aerobe
an organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life; anaerobe
an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live; cross, crossbreed, hybrid
(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; polymorph
an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites; congenator, congener, congeneric, relative
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus); plankton
the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water; nekton
the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales; parasite
an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host; host
an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association; commensal
either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent; myrmecophile
an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant; eucaryote, eukaryote
an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells; procaryote, prokaryote
a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma; zooid
one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan; clon, clone
a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction; atavist, throwback
an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism; individual
a single organism; mascot
a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure; mutant, mutation, sport, variation
(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration; postdiluvian
anything living after Noah's flood; sitter
an organism (person or animal) that sits; stander
an organism (person or animal) that stands; utterer, vocaliser, vocalizer
an organism that can utter vocal sounds; fungus
an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia; nonvascular organism
organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses; relict
an organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated; saprophyte, saprophytic organism
an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium; saprobe
an organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water; katharobe
an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter; pest
any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; critter
a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals); creepy-crawly
an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects); darter
a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; peeper
an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds; homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm
an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature; ectotherm, poikilotherm
an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals; range animal
any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep); varment, varmint
any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote; scavenger
any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter; work animal
an animal trained for and used for heavy labor; domestic animal, domesticated animal
any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment; feeder
an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; migrator
an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year; molter, moulter
an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair); pet
a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement; stayer
a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; stunt
a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth; marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature
any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals; female
an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa); male
an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova); adult
any mature animal; offspring, young
any immature animal; pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred
a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses; giant
any creature of exceptional size; survivor
an animal that survives in spite of adversity; mutant
an animal that has undergone mutation; herbivore
any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; insectivore
any organism that feeds mainly on insects; acrodont
an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets; pleurodont
an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets; monad
(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan); obligate anaerobe
an organism that cannot grow in the presence of oxygen; dihybrid
a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each; monohybrid
a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas); intestinal flora
harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning; virus
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein; moneran, moneron
organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis; bacteria, bacterium
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants; phytoplankton
photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae; zooplankton
animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae; bug, germ, microbe
a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use; endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon
any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms); ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon
any external parasitic organism (as fleas); intermediate host
a host that is used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle; definitive host
the host in which the sexual reproduction of a parasite takes place; pathogen
any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism); protoctist
any of the unicellular protists; protist, protistan
free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes; conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg
an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life; chordate
any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column; invertebrate
any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification; metazoan
any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges; omnivore
an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances; predator, predatory animal
any animal that lives by preying on other animals; prey, quarry
animal hunted or caught for food; game
animal hunted for food or sport; hexapod
an animal having six feet; biped
an animal with two feet; larva
the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose; racer
an animal that races; fictional animal
animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories); self
a person considered as a unique individual; adult, grownup
a fully developed person from maturity onward; adventurer, venturer
a person who enjoys taking risks; anomaly, unusual person
a person who is unusual; applicant, applier
a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission; appointee, appointment
a person who is appointed to a job or position; capitalist
a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business); captor, capturer
a person who captures and holds people or animals; changer, modifier
a person who changes something; color-blind person
a person unable to distinguish differences in hue; common man, common person, commoner
a person who holds no title; communicator
a person who communicates with others; contestant
a person who participates in competitions; coward
a person who shows fear or timidity; creator
a person who grows or makes or invents things; controversialist, disputant, eristic
a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy; applied scientist, engineer, technologist
a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems; entertainer
a person who tries to please or amuse; experimenter
a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas; expert
a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully; face
a part of a person that is used to refer to a person; female, female person
a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies; individualist
a person who pursues independent thought or action; denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
a person who inhabits a particular place; aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native
an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; native
a person born in a particular place or country; inexperienced person, innocent
a person who lacks knowledge of evil; intellect, intellectual
a person who uses the mind creatively; juvenile, juvenile person
a young person, not fully developed; lover
a person who loves someone or is loved by someone; loved one
a person who you love, usually a member of your family; leader
a person who rules or guides or inspires others; male, male person
a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies; money dealer, money handler
a person who receives or invests or pays out money; national, subject
a person who owes allegiance to that nation; nonreligious person
a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity; nonworker
a person who does nothing; compeer, equal, match, peer
a person who is of equal standing with another in a group; beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient
a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses; percher
a person situated on a perch; forerunner, precursor
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another; primitive, primitive person
a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization; religious person
a person who manifests devotion to a deity; sensualist
a person who enjoys sensuality; traveler, traveller
a person who changes location; unfortunate, unfortunate person
a person who suffers misfortune; persona non grata, unwelcome person
a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome; unskilled person
a person who lacks technical training; worker
a person who works at a specific occupation; African
a native or inhabitant of Africa; person of color, person of colour
(formal) any non-European non-white person; Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid, blackamoor
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa); Caucasian, White, White person
a member of the Caucasoid race; Amerindian, Native American
any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived; Slav
any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language; gentile
a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus; Hebrew, Israelite, Jew
a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties; Aries, Ram
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries; Bull, Taurus
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus; Gemini, Twin
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini; Cancer, Crab
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer; Leo, Lion
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo; Virgin, Virgo
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo; Balance, Libra
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra; Scorpio, Scorpion
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Scorpio; Archer, Sagittarius
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Sagittarius; Capricorn, Goat
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn; Aquarius, Water Bearer
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius; Fish, Pisces
(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces; abator
a person who abates a nuisance; abjurer
a person who abjures; abomination
a person who is loathsome or disgusting; abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker
a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages; achiever, succeeder, success, winner
a person with a record of successes; acquaintance, friend
a person with whom you are acquainted; acquirer
a person who acquires something (usually permanently); active
a person who is a participating member of an organization; actor, doer, worker
a person who acts and gets things done; adjudicator
a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes; admirer
a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves; adoptee
someone (such as a child) who has been adopted; adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister
someone who offers opposition; advisee
someone who receives advice; advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; affiant
a person who makes an affidavit; agnostic, doubter
someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something; amateur
someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime; ancient
a person who lived in ancient times; anti
a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); anti-American
a person who is opposed to the United States and its policies; apprehender
a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice); appreciator
a person who is fully aware of something and understands it; archaist
a person who archaizes; arrogator
a person who through conceit makes pretentious claims to rights or advantages that he or she is not entitled to or to qualities that he or she does not possess; assessee
a person (or property) that is assessed; asthmatic
a person suffering from asthma; authority
(usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; autodidact
a person who has taught himself; baby boomer, boomer
a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s; baby buster, buster
a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically; bad guy
any person who is not on your side; bad person
a person who does harm to others; baldhead, baldpate, baldy
a person whose head is bald; balker, baulker, noncompliant
a person who refuses to comply; bullfighter, toreador
someone who fights bulls; bather
a person who takes a bath; beard
a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality); bedfellow
a person with whom you share a bed; bereaved, bereaved person
a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved; best, topper
the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others; birth
a baby born; an offspring; biter
someone who bites; blogger
a person who keeps and updates a blog; blond, blonde
a person with fair skin and hair; bluecoat
a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor); bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle-builder, musclebuilder, muscleman
someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature; bomber
a person who plants bombs; brunet, brunette
a person with dark (brown) hair; buster
a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something; candidate, prospect
someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.); captive
an animal that is confined; case
a person requiring professional services; cashier
a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant); celebrant, celebrater, celebrator
a person who is celebrating; censor
someone who censures or condemns; chameleon
a changeable or inconstant person; beguiler, charmer
a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness); baby, child
an immature childish person; chutzpanik
(Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa; closer
a person who closes something; clumsy person
a person with poor motor coordination; aggregator, collector
a person who collects things; battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper
someone who fights (or is fighting); complexifier
someone makes things complex; compulsive
a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things; computer user
a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business; contemplative
a person devoted to the contemplative life; convert
a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief; ape, aper, copycat, emulator, imitator
someone who copies the words or behavior of another; counter
a person who counts things; counterterrorist
someone who attempts to prevent terrorism; crawler, creeper
a person who crawls or creeps along the ground; creature, wight
a human being; `wight' is an archaic term; creditor
a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists; cripple
someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back; dancer, social dancer
a person who participates in a social gathering arranged for dancing (as a ball); dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed
someone who is no longer alive; deaf person
a person with a severe auditory impairment; debaser, degrader
a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins); debitor, debtor
a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt; defecator, shitter, voider
a person who defecates; delayer
a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late; deliverer
a person who gives up or transfers money or goods; demander
a person who makes demands; dieter
a person who diets; differentiator, discriminator
a person who (or that which) differentiates; disentangler, unraveler, unraveller
a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state; contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector, protester
a person who dissents from some established policy; divider
a person who separates something into parts or groups; domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent
a person (not necessarily a spouse) with whom you cohabit and share a long-term sexual relationship; double, image, look-alike
someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); dresser
a person who dresses in a particular way; dribbler, driveller, drooler, slobberer
a person who dribbles; drug user, substance abuser, user
a person who takes drugs; dyslectic
a person who has dyslexia; ectomorph
a person with a thin body; effecter, effector
one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose; Elizabethan
a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; emotional person
a person subject to strong states of emotion; endomorph
a heavy person with a soft and rounded body; enjoyer
a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something; enrollee
a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study; ethnic
a person who is a member of an ethnic group; adventurer, explorer
someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose); extravert, extrovert
(psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings; faddist
a person who subscribes to a variety of fads; faller
a person who falls; fastener
a person who fastens or makes fast; fiduciary
a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; first-rater
one who is first-rate; follower
a person who accepts the leadership of another; freak, lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity
a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed; free agent, free spirit, freewheeler
someone acting freely or even irresponsibly; friend
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; fleer, fugitive, runaway
someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; gainer
a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits); gainer, weight gainer
a person who gains weight; gambler
a person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events; gatekeeper
someone who controls access to something; gatherer
a person who gathers; good guy
any person who is on your side; good person
a person who is good to other people; granter
a person who grants or gives something; greeter, saluter, welcomer
a person who greets; grinner
a person who grins; groaner
a person who groans; grunter
a person who grunts; guesser
a person who guesses; handicapped person
a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or socially; hater
a person who hates; head
an individual person; heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person
a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex; gay, homo, homophile, homosexual
someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex; homunculus
a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell; hope
someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; hoper
a person who hopes; huddler
a person who crouches; hugger
a person who hugs; immune
a person who is immune to a particular infection; insured, insured person
a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc.; interpreter
someone who uses art to represent something; introvert
(psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts; Jat
a member of an Indo-European people widely scattered throughout the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and consisting of Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs; gem, jewel
a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry; jumper
a person who jumps; junior
the younger of two persons; killer, slayer
someone who causes the death of a person or animal; relation, relative
a person related by blood or marriage; kink
a person with unusual sexual tastes; kneeler
a person in a kneeling position; knocker
a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); apprehender, knower
a person who knows or apprehends; large person
a person of greater than average size; Latin
a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin; laugher
a person who is laughing or who laughs easily; assimilator, learner, scholar
someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs; left-hander, lefty, southpaw
a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right; life
a living person; lightning rod
someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another; linguist, polyglot
a person who speaks more than one language; literate, literate person
a person who can read and write; liver
a person who has a special life style; longer, thirster, yearner
a person with a strong desire for something; loose cannon
a person who is expected to perform a particular task but who is out of control and dangerous; machine
an efficient person; mailer
a person who mails something; malcontent
a person who is discontented or disgusted; man
the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; manipulator
a person who handles things manually; man jack
a single individual; married
a person who is married; masturbator, onanist
a person who practices masturbation; mate
the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner); measurer
a person who makes measurements; nonmember
a person who is not a member; mesomorph
a person with a well-developed muscular body; ladino, mestizo
a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry); middlebrow
someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow; miracle man, miracle worker
a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles; misogamist
a person who hates marriage; mixed-blood
a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races; modern
a contemporary person; monolingual
a person who knows only one language; mother hen
a person who cares for the needs of others (especially in an overprotective or interfering way); mouse
person who is quiet or timid; maimer, mangler, mutilator
a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples; namer
a person who gives a name or names; namesake
a person with the same name as another; neglecter
a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities; neighbor, neighbour
a person who lives (or is located) near another; neutral
one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute; nondescript
a person is not easily classified and not very interesting; nonparticipant
a person who does not participate; nonpartisan, nonpartizan
a person who is nonpartisan; nonperson, unperson
a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons); nonresident
someone who does not live in a particular place; nonsmoker
a person who does not smoke tobacco; nude, nude person
a naked person; nurser
a person who treats something carefully; occultist
a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts; optimist
a person disposed to take a favorable view of things; orphan
someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision; ostrich
a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand); ejector, ouster
a person who ousts or supplants someone else; outcaste
a person belonging to no caste; outdoorsman
a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing); owner, possessor
a person who owns something; coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler
someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence; pansexual
a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds; excuser, forgiver, pardoner
a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense; partner
a person who is a member of a partnership; party
a person involved in legal proceedings; passer
a person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group; personage
another word for person; a person not meriting identification; personification
a person who represents an abstract quality; perspirer, sweater
a person who perspires; philosopher
a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity; chooser, picker, selector
a person who chooses or selects out; pisser, urinator
a person who urinates; contriver, deviser, planner
a person who makes plans; player
a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously; posturer
someone who behaves in a manner calculated to impress or mislead others; powderer
someone who applies or scatters powder; preserver
someone who keeps safe from harm or danger; propositus
the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action; public relations person
a person employed to establish and promote a favorable relationship with the public; pursuer
a person who pursues some plan or goal; pussycat
a person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable; quarter
an unspecified person; quitter
a person who gives up too easily; radical
a person who has radical ideas or opinions; realist
a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly; rectifier
a person who corrects or sets right; carrottop, red-header, redhead, redheader
someone who has red hair; registrant
a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby); allayer, comforter, reliever
a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies; repeater
a person who repeats; recoverer, rescuer, saver
someone who saves something from danger or violence; rester
a person who rests; controller, restrainer
a person who directs and restrains; revenant
a person who returns after a lengthy absence; have, rich person, wealthy person
a person who possesses great material wealth; right hander, right-hander, righthander
a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left; riser
a person who rises (especially from bed); romper
a person who romps or frolics; roundhead
a brachycephalic person; ruler, swayer
a person who rules or commands; rusher
a person who rushes; someone in a hurry; someone who acts precipitously; scientist
a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences; scratcher
a person who scratches to relieve an itch; mediocrity, second-rater
a person of second-rate ability or value; cloud seeder, seeder
a person who seeds clouds; quester, searcher, seeker
someone making a search or inquiry; segregate
someone who is or has been segregated; romanticist, sentimentalist
someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality; sex object
any person regarded simply as an object of sexual gratification; sex symbol
a person (especially a celebrity) who is well-known for their sexual attractiveness; mover and shaker, shaker
a person who wields power and influence; showman
a person skilled at making effective presentations; signatory, signer
someone who signs and is bound by a document; simple, simpleton
a person lacking intelligence or common sense; six-footer
a person who is at least six feet tall; skidder, slider, slipper
a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction; slave
a person who is owned by someone; slave
someone entirely dominated by some influence or person; sleepyhead
a sleepy person; sloucher
a person who slouches; someone with a drooping carriage; small person
a person of below average size; smasher
a person who smashes something; smiler
a person who smiles; sneezer
a person who sneezes; sniffer
a person who sniffs; sniffler, sniveler
a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose; snuffer
a person who snuffs out candles; snuffler
a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus); socialiser, socializer
a person who takes part in social activities; sort
a person of a particular character or nature; sounding board
a person whose reactions to something serve as an indication of its acceptability; sphinx
an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret; expectorator, spitter
a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth); sport
a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; sprawler
a person who sprawls; spurner
a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt; squint-eye, squinter
a person with strabismus; standee
someone who stands in a place where one might otherwise sit (as a spectator who uses standing room in a theater or a passenger on a crowded bus or train); smotherer, stifler
a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; stigmatic, stigmatist
a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ); stooper
a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward; stranger
an individual that one is not acquainted with; struggler
a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort; case, guinea pig, subject
a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; supernumerary
a person serving no apparent function; surrenderer, yielder
a person who yields or surrenders; survivalist
someone who tries to insure their personal survival or the survival of their group or nation; survivor
one who outlives another; suspect
someone who is under suspicion; tagger
someone who appends or joins one thing to another; tagger
someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter; tapper
a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly; tempter
a person who tempts others; termer
a person who serves a specified term; scourge, terror, threat
a person who inspires fear or dread; testate, testator
a person who makes a will; scrag, skin and bones, thin person
a person who is unusually thin and scrawny; third-rater
one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior; thrower
someone who projects something (especially by a rapid motion of the arm); tiger
a fierce or audacious person; totemist
a person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem; toucher
a person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something; transfer, transferee
someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another; transexual, transsexual
a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex; cross-dresser, transvestite
someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex; attempter, essayer, trier
one who tries; turner
one of two persons who swing ropes for jumpers to skip over in the game of jump rope; tyrant
any person who exercises power in a cruel way; opener, undoer, unfastener, untier
a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; user
a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something; vanisher
a person who disappears; dupe, victim
a person who is tricked or swindled; Victorian
a person who lived during the reign of Victoria; visionary
a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible; visually impaired person
someone who has inferior vision; waiter
a person who waits or awaits; waker
a person who awakes; walk-in
person who walks in without having an appointment; needer, wanter
a person who wants or needs something; ward
a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another; warrior
someone engaged in or experienced in warfare; watcher
a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body; doormat, weakling, wuss
a person who is physically weak and ineffectual; weasel
a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky; squirmer, wiggler, wriggler
one who can't stay still (especially a child); winker
a person who winks; withholder
a person who refrains from granting; witness
(law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law; worldling
a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world; yawner
a person who yawns; microflora
microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora; crop
a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale; endemic
a plant that is native to a certain limited area; holophyte
an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis; non-flowering plant
a plant that does not bear flowers; plantlet
a young plant or a small plant; wilding
a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree); ornamental
any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value; pot plant
a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors); acrogen
any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem; apomict
a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis; aquatic
a plant that lives in or on water; bryophyte, nonvascular plant
any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta; cryptogam
formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi; annual
(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year; biennial
(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season; perennial
(botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more; escape
a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild; hygrophyte
a plant that grows in a moist habitat; neophyte
a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously; embryo
(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium; monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant
a plant that bears fruit once and dies; sporophyte
the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations; gametophyte
the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations; Ceratostomella ulmi, Dutch elm fungus
fungus causing Dutch elm disease; Claviceps purpurea, ergot
a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid; Xylaria mali, black root rot fungus
fungus causing black root rot in apples; Xylaria polymorpha, dead-man's-fingers, dead-men's-fingers
the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria; sclerotinia
any fungus of the genus Sclerotinia; some causing brown rot diseases in plants; earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles; stalked puffball
mushroom of the genus Tulostoma that resembles a puffball; false truffle
any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle; slime mold, slime mould
a naked mass of protoplasm having characteristics of both plants and animals; sometimes classified as protoctists; pond-scum parasite
an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum; Synchytrium endobioticum, potato wart fungus
fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers; Saprolegnia ferax, white fungus
a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins); white rust
fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia; pythium
any fungus of the genus Pythium; Phytophthora citrophthora
causes brown rot gummosis in citrus fruits; Phytophthora infestans
fungus causing late blight in solanaceous plants especially tomatoes and potatoes; Plasmodiophora brassicae, clubroot fungus
a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants; earth-ball, earthnut, truffle
any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe; coral fungus
any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral; tooth fungus
a fungus of the family Hydnaceae; lichen
any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.; true fungus
any of numerous fungi of the division Eumycota; basidiomycete, basidiomycetous fungi
any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota; Chinese black mushroom, Lentinus edodes, Oriental black mushroom, golden oak mushroom, shiitake, shiitake mushroom
edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe; Lentinus lepideus, scaly lentinus
a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice; Corticium salmonicolor, pink disease fungus
fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc; Corticium solani, bottom rot fungus
fungus causing bottom rot in lettuce; Pellicularia filamentosa, Rhizoctinia solani, potato fungus
fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers; Pellicularia koleroga, coffee fungus
fungus causing a disease in coffee and some other tropical plants; Volvaria bombycina
a parasite on various trees; sac fungus
any of various ascomycetous fungi in which the spores are formed in a sac or ascus; ascomycete, ascomycetous fungus
any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus; yeast
any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division; Aspergillus fumigatus
a mold causing aspergillosis in birds and man; Thielavia basicola, brown root rot fungus
fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families; Wynnea americana
a fungus composed of several apothecia that look like elongated rabbit ears; the sterile surface is dark brown and warty; the fertile surface is smooth and pinkish orange; Wynnea sparassoides
a fungus with a long solid stalk embedded in soil and a yellow-brown head shaped like a cauliflower; false morel
a fungus of the family Helvellaceae; lorchel
a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae; gyromitra
any fungus of the genus Gyromitra; gasteromycete, gastromycete
any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes; carrion fungus, stinkhorn
any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; puffball, true puffball
any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature; earthstar
any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star; Radiigera fuscogleba
a fungus similar to an earthstar except that it does not open up; the spore mass is brown at maturity with a column of sterile tissue extending up into it; bird's-nest fungus
any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores; Gastrocybe lateritia
a species of Gastrocybe fungus that has a conic cap and a thin stalk; at first the stalk is upright but as it matures the stalk bends over and then downward; the cap then gelatinizes and a slimy mass containing the spores falls to the ground as the stalk collapses; Macowanites americanus
a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap; Gastroboletus scabrosus
a dingy yellow brown fungus with a rough stalk that superficially resembles a bolete; Gastroboletus turbinatus
a fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown; superficially resembles a bolete; Grifola frondosa, Polyporus frondosus, hen of the woods, hen-of-the-woods
large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees; Fomes igniarius, agaric
fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses; bolete
any fungus of the family Boletaceae; jelly fungus
any fungus of the order Tremellales or Auriculariales whose fruiting body is jellylike in consistency when fresh; rust, rust fungus
any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants; smut, smut fungus
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales; Septobasidium pseudopedicellatum, felt fungus
fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States; mold, mould
a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter; mildew
a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter; verticillium
a fungus of the genus Verticillium; monilia
any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia; candida
any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Candida; blastomycete
any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals; Cercospora kopkei, yellow spot fungus
fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia); Ustilaginoidea virens, green smut fungus
fungus causing green smut in rice; dry rot
a fungus causing dry rot; rhizoctinia
any fungus now or formerly belonging to the form genus Rhizoctinia; houseplant
any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes; garden plant
any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden; tracheophyte, vascular plant
green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms; poisonous plant
a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism; parasitic plant
plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it; aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant
plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it; rock plant
plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden; autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism
plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances; myrmecophyte
plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it; earth-tongue, earthtongue
any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum

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