Here is a list of one-word substitutions for various terms describing people, based on their characteristics, professions, or behaviors.
List of One Word Substitution for Person/People
| One Word Substitutions | Person/People |
|---|---|
| One who is not sure about God’s existence | Agnostic |
| A person who deliberately sets fire to a building | Arsonist |
| One who does a thing for pleasure and not as a profession | Amateur |
| One who can use either hand with ease | Ambidextrous |
| One who makes an official examination of accounts | Auditor |
| A person who believes in or tries to bring about a state of lawlessness | Anarchist |
| A person who has changed his faith | Apostate |
| One who does not believe in the existence of God | Atheist |
| A person appointed by two parties to solve a dispute | Arbitrator |
| One who leads an austere life | Ascetic |
| An unconventional style of living | Bohemian |
| One who is bad in spellings | Cacographer |
| One who feeds on human flesh | Cannibal |
| A person who is blindly devoted to an idea/ a person displaying aggressive or exaggerated patriotism | Chauvinist |
| A critical judge of any art and craft | Connoisseur |
| Persons living at the same time | Contemporaries |
| One who is recovering health after illness | Convalescent |
| A girl/woman who flirts with a man | Coquette |
| A person who regards the whole world as his country | Cosmopolitan |
| One who is a centre of attraction | Cynosure |
| One who sneers at the beliefs of others | Cynic |
| A leader or orator who espouses the cause of the common people | Demagogue |
| A person having a sophisticated charm | Debonair |
| A leader who sways his followers by his oratory | Demagogue |
| A dabbler (not serious) in art, science and literature | Dilettante |
| One who is for pleasure of eating and drinking | Epicure |
| One who often talks of his achievements | Egotist |
| Someone who leaves one country to settle in another | Emigrant |
| A man who is womanish in his habits | Effeminate |
| One who is hard to please (very selective in his habits) | Fastidious |
| One who runs away from justice | Fugitive |
| One who is filled with excessive enthusiasm in religious matters | Fanatic |
| One who believes in fate | Fatalist |
| A lover of good food | Gourmand |
| Conferred as an honour | Honorary |
| A person who acts against religion | Heretic |
| A person of intellectual or erudite tastes | Highbrow |
| A patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments | Hypochondriac |
| A person who is controlled by wife | Henpeck |
| One who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Indefatigable |
| Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | Iconoclast |
| One who does not express himself freely | Introvert |
| Who behaves without moral principles | Immoral |
| A person who is incapable of being tampered with | Impregnable |
| One who is unable to pay his debts | Insolvent |
| A person who is mentally ill | Lunatic |
| A person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society | Misanthrope |
| A person who is primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics | Mercenary |
| Someone in love with himself | Narcissist |
| One who collects coins as a hobby | Numismatist |
| A person who likes or admires women | Philogynist |
| A lover of mankind | Philanthropist |
| A person who speaks more than one language | Polyglot |
| One who lives in solitude | Recluse |
| Someone who walks in sleep | Somnambulist |
| A person who is indifferent to the pains and pleasures of life | Stoic |
| A scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Termagant |
| A person who shows a great or excessive fondness for one’s wife | Uxorious |
| One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field | Virtuoso |