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How to sign: a human being
"there was too much for one person to do";
Similiar / Same: person, individual, someone, somebody, human, soul
Categories: being, causal agency, causal agent, cause, organism
Within this category: abomination, abstainer, achiever, acquaintance, acquirer, active, actor, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adult, adventurer, adversary, advisee, advocate, affiant, African, amateur, Amerindian, anomaly, applicant, appointee, appreciator, apprehender, Aquarius, Aries, arrogator, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, baby buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, balker, bather, beard, bedfellow, best, biter, Black, blond, bodybuilder, bomber, brunet, bullfighter, buster, Cancer, candidate, capitalist, Capricorn, captor, case, cashier, celebrant, chameleon, changer, charmer, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, collector, color-blind person, combatant, commoner, communicator, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, contestant, convert, copycat, counter, coward, crawler, creator, creature, creditor, dancer, dead person, debaser, debtor, defecator, delayer, deliverer, demander, differentiator, disentangler, disputant, dissenter, divider, domestic partner, double, dresser, dribbler, drug user, ectomorph, effecter, Elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, engineer, enjoyer, enrollee, entertainer, experimenter, expert, explorer, extrovert, face, faddist, faller, fastener, female, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, free agent, friend, fugitive, gainer, gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, Gemini, Gentile, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, individualist, inhabitant, innocent, insured, intellectual, interpreter, introvert, Jat, Jew, jewel, juvenile, killer, kneeler, knocker, knower, large person, Latin, laugher, leader, learner, left-hander, Leo, Libra, life, lightning rod, linguist, literate, liver, longer, loose cannon, lover, machine, mailer, malcontent, male, man, manipulator, man jack, masturbator, measurer, mesomorph, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, money handler, mother hen, mutilator, namer, namesake, national, native, neglecter, neighbor, neutral, nondescript, nonmember, nonparticipant, nonperson, nonreligious person, nonsmoker, nonworker, nude, nurser, occultist, old maid, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, pamperer, pansexual, pardoner, partner, party, passer, peer, perceiver, percher, personage, personification, person of color, perspirer, philosopher, picker, Pisces, pisser, planner, powderer, precursor, preserver, primitive, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, rectifier, redhead, registrant, relative, reliever, religionist, repeater, rescuer, rester, restrainer, revenant, rich person, right-hander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, rusher, Sagittarius, scientist, Scorpio, scratcher, second-rater, seeder, seeker, self, sensualist, sentimentalist, sex object, shaker, signer, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, Slav, slave, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, snuffer, snuffler, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, spitter, sprawler, spurner, squinter, stifler, stigmatic, stooper, struggler, subject, surrenderer, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tapper, Taurus, tempter, termer, terror, testator, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, toucher, transfer, transsexual, transvestite, traveler, trier, tyrant, undoer, unfortunate, unskilled person, unwelcome person, user, vanisher, victim, Victorian, Virgo, visionary, waiter, waker, walk-in, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, weakling, White, wiggler, winker, withholder, witness, worker, yawner
How to sign: subject to death
"mortal beings";
How to sign: someone who is capable of death (usually as distinguished from a spirit)
"why does God care about mortals?", "angels and demons battle over the fate of mortals";