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.

  •
  • offering,
  • the injured,
  • hunted.
  •
  • pushover,
  • tool,
  • hireling,
  • toy.
  •
  • religion.
  •
  • help.
  •
  • wise.
  •babe in the woods (noun)
  • babe the woods,
  • gullible persons,
  • babe-woods,
  • babe woods,
  • gullible people,
  • simple souls.
  •butt (noun)
  • jestees.
  •dupe (noun)
  • fool,
  • laughingstock,
  • April Fool.
  •fall guy (noun)
  • trusting soul,
  • lamb to the slaughter,
  • can-carrier,
  • patsy,
  • easy touch,
  • prize sap.
  •fool (noun)
  • turkey,
  • fathead,
  • fools,
  • Geese,
  • half-wit,
  • lamebrain,
  • Mooncalf,
  • lamebrains,
  • birdbrains,
  • illiterates,
  • lightweights,
  • twerps,
  • sillies,
  • dumb ox,
  • ninny,
  • gooses,
  • goose,
  • tomfool,
  • schmo,
  • innocents,
  • softhead,
  • fatheads,
  • moron,
  • birdbrain,
  • halfwit,
  • dunderheads,
  • dunderhead,
  • twerp.
  •game (noun)
  • Wild Animal,
  • Wild Animals,
  • Ravin.
  •guinea pig (noun)
  • Cavies,
  • rodent,
  • laboratory animal,
  • examinees,
  • testee,
  • cavy,
  • examinee,
  • test animal,
  • lab animal,
  • experimental animal,
  • Rodents,
  • testees,
  • test subject,
  • lab rat,
  • experimental subject.
  •hostage (noun)
  • earnests.
  •immolation (noun)
  • dis-counts,
  • hecatombs,
  • dis counts.
  •laughing stock (noun)
  • aunt sallys.
  •laughingstock (noun)
  • fair game,
  • monkey,
  • buffoon.
  •object (noun)
  • ground zeroes,
  • ground zeros.
  •object of ridicule (noun)
  • laughing stock.
  •patient (noun)
  • in-mates,
  • in valid,
  • shutin,
  • out patient,
  • in-mate,
  • in mate,
  • in mates,
  • shutins,
  • shut ins,
  • out patients,
  • in-valid,
  • sick persons,
  • sick people,
  • shut-ins,
  • out-patients.
  •person (noun)
  • victim.
  •prey (noun)
  • raven,
  • ravens.
  •scapegoat (noun)
  • another's action boob.
  •slave (noun)
  • subservients.
  •someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon (noun)
  • sucker.
  •target (noun)
  • by word,
  • by words.

• Other synonyms:

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

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.

Victim Sentence Examples:

• It is my sister who is the victim, and I cannot have it go on.

• You just volunteered to be her next victim.

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.