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express
adj. certain, precise
  • accurate
  • categorical
  • clean-cut
  • clear
  • clear-cut
  • considered
  • definite
  • definitive
  • deliberate
  • designful
  • direct
  • distinct
  • especial
  • exact
  • explicit
  • expressed
  • individual
  • intended
  • intentional
  • out-and-out
  • outright
  • particular
  • plain
  • pointed
  • premeditated
  • set
  • singular
  • special
  • specific
  • unambiguous
  • unconditional
  • unmistakable
  • unqualified
  • uttered
  • voiced
  • voluntary
  • willing
  • witting

guy
noun. man
  • bird
  • bloke
  • boy
  • brother
  • bud
  • buddy
  • cat
  • chap
  • chum
  • dude
  • feller
  • fellow
  • gentleman
  • individual
  • male
  • person

human
adj. characteristic of people
  • animal
  • anthropoid
  • anthropological
  • anthropomorphic
  • biped
  • bipedal
  • civilized
  • creatural
  • ethnologic
  • ethological
  • fallible
  • fleshly
  • forgivable
  • hominal
  • hominid
  • hominine
  • humanistic
  • individual
  • mortal
  • personal
  • vulnerable

human
noun. person, homo sapiens
  • being
  • biped
  • body
  • character
  • child
  • creature
  • individual
  • life
  • mortal
  • personage
  • soul
  • wight

inherent
adj. basic, hereditary
  • built-in
  • characteristic
  • congenital
  • connate
  • constitutional
  • deep-rooted
  • deep-seated
  • distinctive
  • elementary
  • essential
  • fixed
  • fundamental
  • genetic
  • immanent
  • implicit
  • in the grain
  • inborn
  • inbred
  • inbuilt
  • indigenous
  • indispensable
  • individual
  • indwelling
  • ingrained
  • inherited
  • innate
  • inner
  • instinctive
  • integral
  • integrated
  • internal
  • intimate
  • intrinsic
  • inward
  • latent
  • native
  • natural
  • original
  • part and parcel
  • resident
  • running in the family
  • subjective
  • unalienable

inner
adj. mental, private
  • central
  • concealed
  • deep-rooted
  • deep-seated
  • emotional
  • esoteric
  • essential
  • focal
  • gut
  • hidden
  • individual
  • inherent
  • innate
  • inside
  • interior
  • internal
  • intimate
  • intrinsic
  • intuitive
  • inward
  • personal
  • psychological
  • repressed
  • secret
  • spiritual
  • subconscious
  • unrevealed
  • visceral
  • viscerous

life
noun. being
  • animal
  • animateness
  • animation
  • body
  • breath
  • consciousness
  • continuance
  • creature
  • endurance
  • entity
  • essence
  • existence
  • flesh
  • flesh and blood
  • growth
  • human
  • human being
  • individual
  • living
  • living being
  • living thing
  • man
  • metabolism
  • mortal
  • mortal being
  • organism
  • person
  • personage
  • presence
  • soul
  • subsistence
  • substantiality
  • survival
  • symbiosis
  • viability
  • vital spark
  • vitality
  • wildlife
  • woman

material
noun. matter, fabric
  • being
  • body
  • bolt
  • cloth
  • component
  • constituent
  • crop
  • element
  • entity
  • equipment
  • gear
  • goods
  • habiliments
  • individual
  • ingredient
  • machinery
  • materiel
  • object
  • outfit
  • paraphernalia
  • staple
  • stock
  • stuff
  • substance
  • supply
  • tackle
  • textile
  • thing

matter
noun. substance
  • amount
  • being
  • body
  • constituents
  • corporeality
  • corporeity
  • element
  • entity
  • individual
  • material
  • materialness
  • object
  • phenomenon
  • physical world
  • protoplasm
  • quantity
  • stuff
  • substantiality
  • sum
  • thing
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Word Origin & History

individual "a single object or thing," c.1600, from M.L. individualis, from L. individuus "indivisible," from in- "not" + dividuus "divisible," from dividere "divide." Colloquial sense of "person" is attested from 1742. As an adj., used from early 15c. meaning "one and indivisible" (with ref. to the Trinity). Sense of "single, separate" is 1610s; meaning "intended for one person" is from 1889."A majority can never replace the individual. ... Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, a heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards." [Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf," 1933]

Example Sentences for individual

Only an individual here and there sees that freedom and domination must belong to us.

Time after time He comes to the individual's relief according to His own law.

It is individual ardour alone that can combine into larger flame.

Her one art was histrionics of the kind that made an individual appeal.

But the interference must be regulated by some theory of the individual's rights.

There should be a series of Coming of Ages for every individual.

Nothing as to the manners of the times can be inferred from this freak of an individual.

To respect an oath is a duty which the individual owes to society.

The work of the individual endured only as long as its delivery lasted.

As the world has been unified, so is the individual unit exalted.

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