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Definitions of individual
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concerning one person exclusively; " we all have individual cars"; " each room has a private bath"
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Not divided: subsisting as one: pertaining to one only.
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A single person; a single animal or thing.
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Individually.
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Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
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An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
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separate and distinct from others of the same kind; " mark the individual pages"; " on a case- by- case basis"
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The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
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A single person, animal, or thing.
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A person or zooid of distinctive function of a hydrozoan colony.
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A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
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A single example or unit, as individual variations of colour.
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a single organism
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Not divided; single; pertaining to one.
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a human being; " there was too much for one person to do"
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Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
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Pertaining to one thing; single.
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A single person, animal, plant, or thing.
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being or characteristic of a single thing or person; " individual drops of rain"; " please mark the individual pages"; " they went their individual ways"
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characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; " an individual serving"; " separate rooms"; " single occupancy"; " a single bed"
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Existing as a single and distinct thing or personality; pertaining to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; of a peculiar or striking character; as, an individual style of speaking.
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Subsisting as a distinct, indivisible being; single; one; pertaining to one only.
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A single person; a single animal, plant, or thing.
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Single.
Antonyms for individual
combined, conjoint, divers, comprehensive, body, generic, conjunct, indiscriminate, group, in depth, middle, cluster, batch, motley, mutual, broad, raggle-taggle, patchwork, regular, intermediate, communal, prevalent, myriad, common, assorted, median, majority, encyclopedic, thorough, panoramic, full, received, shared, exhaustive, typical, crop, modest, complete, clutch, miscellaneous, prevailing, middling, dependent, passel, general, constellation, atypical, promiscuous, same, multifarious, mixed, multiple, very, broad gauge, popular, all-inclusive, uncharacteristic, parcel, manifold, broad-brush, collaborative, compendious, Boodle, kitchen sink, lot, across the board, global, consort, battery, normal, Pooled, omnibus, piebald, all-embracing, all in, vulgar, bird's eye, grouping, average, overall, eclectic, ragtag, selfsame, cover-all, bunch, universal, united, mean, array, concerted, cooperative, medium, widespread, party, impersonal, blanket, all-around, Embracive, Cyclopedic, collective, public, untypical, magpie, varied, nonspecific, identical, huddle, moderate, inclusive, midsize.
Quotes of individual
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual
– Mikhail Bakunin -
Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual
– Franz Beckenbauer -
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
– Isaiah Berlin -
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
– Gustave Courbet -
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
– Herbert Croly -
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
– Harold Evans -
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual
– Timothy Thomas Fortune -
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
– John Grierson -
But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts.
– Charlie Hunter -
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving- as if it were an individual person- its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
– Karl Marx -
I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.
– Mark Messier -
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
– John Stuart Mill -
I feel very strong as an individual but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.
– Ruud van Nistelrooy -
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.
– John Buchanan Robinson
Usage examples for individual
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“ That individual looked at it with a puzzled face. ”
– The Ball and The Cross by G.K. Chesterton -
“ You have- pardon me again, but we have been uncommonly personal to- night- a strong and individual face... ”
– The Sisters-In-Law by Gertrude Atherton -
“ Each individual had his own secret cause of curiosity. ”
– The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper -
“ In alcoholism, as in tuberculosis, the will of the individual is the all- important consideration. ”
– Psychotherapy by James J. Walsh -
“ Other things being equal, the size and weight of the brain bear a general relation to the mental power of the individual ”
– A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell -
“ Reality as a whole is a Consciousness, and the individual mind is another consciousness. ”
– John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard -
“ Why, when you both agreed that I should have neither saddle- horse nor pony for my own individual use, did you not tell me so at once? ”
– Wych Hazel by Susan and Anna Warner -
“ I am an individual who likes to make the most of his life. ”
– My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby -
“ I am like most women, I think: I deal with the individual ”
– The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde -
“ To be the guardian of her laws, and of the individual right of every man born on Scottish ground, is my ambition. ”
– The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter -
“ From which it follows that each individual mind requires to be regarded- if it is regarded at all- as of the nature of a first cause. ”
– Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes -
“ The head of each individual rested on a stone, fashioned with care, but to no certain pattern. ”
– Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) by Dawson Turner -
“ See under names of individual ministers. ”
– The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various -
“ In fact, I began, in the few seconds it took me to consider this, to look upon Mars as rather an ill- used individual ”
– Kitty's Conquest by Charles King -
“ But the thing to remember is that the one condition of art is that the thought and the expression must be individual and absolutely sincere. ”
– The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson -
“ She became an ordinary individual again, and so did Joe. ”
– The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. Wodehouse -
“ What does the individual man amount to in all this? ”
– The Forerunners by Romain Rolland -
“ What does it say about the life of the priest, the Church, and the individual Christian? ”
– Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren -
“ The boy had refused and- big business had wiped out another individual ”
– In And Out by Edgar Franklin -
“ The moral of it seems to be that cowardice is even worse for nations than for individual men, though the consequences come on us more slowly. ”
– The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith