Definition for Victim:

• Living being sacrificed to a deity or in performance of religious rite; person, thing, injured or destroyed in pursuit of an object, in gratification of a passion &c., or as result of event or circumstance, as the vv. of his relentless ambition, fell a v. to his own avarice, the vv. of disease, of a railway accident; prey, dupe, as held the v. in his talons, the numerous vv. of the confidence trick. [ French]

Synonyms for Victim:

• n.

  •
  • hunted,
  • offering.
  •
  • pushover,
  • tool,
  • hireling,
  • toy.
  •
  • religion.
  •
  • help.
  •
  • wise.
  •dupe (noun)
  • fool,
  • laughingstock,
  • April Fool.
  •fall guy (noun)
  • trusting soul,
  • prize sap,
  • patsy.
  •fool (noun)
  • tomfool,
  • schmo,
  • turkey,
  • ninny,
  • Mooncalf,
  • softhead.
  •laughingstock (noun)
  • fair game,
  • monkey,
  • buffoon.
  •someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon (noun)
  • sucker.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • gudgeon,
  • wretch,
  • injured,
  • amputee,
  • whipping boy,
  • sacrificial lamb.
  •
  • confessor,
  • plaything,
  • fodder,
  • cinderella,
  • gull,
  • stooge.
  •
  • lamb,
  • unfortunate.
  •
  • creature,
  • sap,
  • casualty.
  •
  • instrument,
  • mug.
  •
  • mark.
  •loser
  • underdog.
  •Other relevant words:
  • muggins,
  • fish,
  • cripple,
  • poor devil,
  • design,
  • gopher,
  • naif,
  • cull,
  • score,
  • easy make,
  • loser,
  • clown,
  • statistic,
  • innocent,
  • schnook,
  • byword,
  • man of straw,
  • cinch,
  • big game,
  • Gazingstock,
  • schmuck,
  • Gobemouche,
  • mockery,
  • smart,
  • stock,
  • boob,
  • suffer pain,
  • Casualties,
  • easy mark,
  • experience pain,
  • bleed,
  • saphead,
  • fatality,
  • sad sack,
  • schlimazel,
  • ass,
  • cat's-paw,
  • ail,
  • duck,
  • kill,
  • hardcase,
  • suffer,
  • point,
  • jest,
  • front,
  • shlemiel,
  • quiz,
  • victims,
  • valetudinarian,
  • good sport,
  • goat,
  • gambit,
  • booby,
  • defenceless,
  • sport,
  • derision,
  • soft touch,
  • sitting target,
  • feel pain,
  • end,
  • ache,
  • Venery,
  • Cully,
  • vanquished,
  • loss,
  • bankrupt,
  • cause,
  • accuser,
  • jay,
  • joke,
  • chump,
  • greener,
  • easy game,
  • flat,
  • incurable,
  • schlemiel,
  • injured party,
  • babe,
  • invalid,
  • aunt sally,
  • oblation,
  • flunker,
  • physical pain,
  • straw man,
  • aim,
  • little guy,
  • easy pickings,
  • greenhorn,
  • also-ran,
  • objective,
  • greeny,
  • flunky.

Paraphrases for Victim:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    Persons.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    person, woman.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    target.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    Discriminated, aggrieved, Trafficked, deceased.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Les, Vic.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Capita, sacrifice, deceased, Vic, suffering, perpetrator.
  • Verb, past tense
    Suffered, experienced, heaped.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    victims, subject.
  • Proper noun, singular
    victimization, casualty.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    victimization, fatality, complainant, casualty, subject.
  • Adverb
    victims.

Antonyms for Victim:

• n.

  • someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon
    criminal, culprit.
  • Other antonyms:
    Baiter, Needler, victor, winner, parodist.

Hypernym for Victim:

• n.

  • person
    murderee, hunted person, prey, punching bag, muggee, poor devil, martyr, injured party, scapegoat, casualty, wretch, quarry, sufferer, whipping boy, fair game, target.

Hyponym for Victim:

• n.

  • person
    unfortunate, unfortunate person.