individual
Plural: individuals
Noun
- a human being
- a single organism
- A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
- A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
- An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
- An element belonging to a population.
Adjective
- being or characteristic of a single thing or person
- "individual drops of rain"
- "please mark the individual pages"
- "they went their individual ways"
Adjective Satellite
- separate and distinct from others of the same kind
- "mark the individual pages"
- characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing
- "an individual serving"
- concerning one person exclusively
- "we all have individual cars"
Adj
- Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
- Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.
- Not divisible without losing its identity.
Examples
- As we can't print them all together, the individual pages will have to be printed one by one.
- He is an unusual individual.
- individual personal pension; individual cream cakes
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Medieval Latin indīviduālis, from Latin indīviduum (“an indivisible thing”), neuter of indīviduus (“indivisible, undivided”), from in + dīviduus (“divisible”), from dīvidō (“divide”).
Synonyms
case-by-case, item-by-item, mortal, person, private, single, somebody, someone, soul, personal, self-standing
Scrabble Score: 15
individual: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordindividual: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
individual: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary