Contains

• sufferer

  A person suffering from an illness.

• victim

  An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.

• captive

  A person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war.

• failure

  A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.

• poor person

  A person with few or no possessions.

• mourner

  A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died).

• castaway

  A person who is rejected (from society or home).

• crier

  A person who weeps.

• abandoned person

  Someone for whom hope has been abandoned.

• desperate

  A person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desper...

• homeless

  Someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park".

• survivor

  One who lives through affliction; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital".

• maroon

  A person who is stranded (as on an island); "when the tide came in I was a maroon out th...

• choker

  An unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or...

• nympholept

  A person seized by nympholepsy.

• Job

  Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing.

• languisher

  A person who languishes.

• jinx

  A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him.

• schlimazel

  (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything.

• amputee

  Someone who has had a limb removed by amputation.