unfortunate person

Thesaurus

Noun

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unfortunate person - a person who suffers misfortune unfortunate individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" 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; "he could win if he wasn't a choker" desperate - a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate" homeless, homeless person - someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park" 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 nonstarter, unsuccessful person, loser, failure - a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently maroon - a person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there" griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower - a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) nympholept - a person seized by nympholepsy castaway, outcast, pariah, Ishmael - 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; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital" victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance crier, weeper - a person who weeps