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abandoned person
someone for whom hope has been abandoned
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amputee
someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
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choker
an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation
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desperate
a person who is frightened and in need of help
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homeless, homeless person
someone unfortunate without housing
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Job
any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
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jinx, jonah
a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
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languisher
a person who languishes
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failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
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maroon
a person who is stranded (as on an island)
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griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower
a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
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nympholept
a person seized by nympholepsy
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Ishmael, castaway, outcast, pariah
a person who is rejected (from society or home)
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have-not, poor person
a person with few or no possessions
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captive, prisoner
a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
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schlimazel, shlimazel
(Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
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diseased person, sick person, sufferer
a person suffering from an illness
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subsister, survivor
one who lives through affliction
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victim
an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
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crier, weeper
a person who weeps
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poor white trash, white trash
(slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
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anorectic, anorexic
a person suffering from anorexia nervosa
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bag lady
a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags
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bulimic
a person suffering from bulimia
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bankrupt, insolvent
someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts
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bawler
a loud weeper
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blubberer
someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs
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castaway, shipwreck survivor
a shipwrecked person
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casualty, injured party
someone injured or killed in an accident
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casualty
someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
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consumptive, lunger, tubercular
a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
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convalescent
a person who is recovering from illness
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con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
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depressive
someone suffering psychological depression
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detainee, political detainee
some held in custody
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diabetic
someone who has diabetes
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down-and-out
a person who is destitute
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dyspeptic
a person suffering from indigestion
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epileptic
a person who has epilepsy
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flash in the pan
someone who enjoys transient success but then fails
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dud, flop, washout
someone who is unsuccessful
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goner, toast
a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
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bleeder, haemophile, haemophiliac, hemophile, hemophiliac
someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding
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heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast
a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church
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hostage, surety
a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms
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hunted person
a person who is hunted
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incurable
a person whose disease is incurable
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insomniac, sleepless person
someone who cannot sleep
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internee
a person who is interned
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invalid, shut-in
someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
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leper
a pariah who is avoided by others
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lazar, leper
a person afflicted with leprosy
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underdog
one at a disadvantage and expected to lose
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lunatic, madman, maniac
an insane person
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manic-depressive
a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness
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martyr, sufferer
one who suffers for the sake of principle
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martyr
one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion
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monomaniac
a person suffering from monomania
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muggee
a victim of a mugging
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murderee
a victim who is murdered
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narcoleptic
a person who has narcolepsy
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neurasthenic
a person suffering a nervous breakdown
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mental case, neurotic, psychoneurotic
a person suffering from neurosis
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bearer, pallbearer
one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
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patient
a person who requires medical care
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pauper
a person who is very poor
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political prisoner
someone who is imprisoned because of their political views
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poor devil, wretch
someone you feel sorry for
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fair game, prey, quarry, target
a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
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POW, prisoner of war
a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war
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psycho, psychotic, psychotic person
a person afflicted with psychosis
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punching bag
a person on whom another person vents their anger
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rheumatic
a person suffering with rheumatism
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scapegoat, whipping boy
someone who is punished for the errors of others
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syphilitic
a person suffering from syphilis
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Harijan, untouchable
belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India
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drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
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valetudinarian
weak or sickly person especially one morbidly concerned with his or her health
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spewer, vomiter
a person who vomits
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wailer
a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries
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weeper
a hired mourner