individual

1. 1.

   a human being

   “there was too much for one person to do”

   Synonymspersonsomeonesomebodymortalsoul

   Broaderorganismcausal agent

   Narrowerselfadultadventureranomalyanachronismapplicantappointeecapitalistcaptorchanger

   Part ofpeople

   Partspersonalityhuman body
2. 2.

   a single organism

   Broaderorganism

   Narrowerhead

Other forms of individual

plural

individuals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about individual

What does individual mean?

individual means "being or characteristic of a single thing or person". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in individual?

individual has 5 syllables: in-di-vid-u-al. The stress falls on "vid". In IPA it is /ˌɪndəˈvɪdʒəwəl/.

What is another word for individual?

Close synonyms include single, case-by-case, item-by-item, single, private. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of individual?

The recorded antonyms are common.

Is individual a common word?

individual is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.