victim | Definition of victim

Synonyms and Antonyms of victim

1 a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed

helped the victims of the fire

Synonyms of victim

casualty, fatality, loss, prey

Words Related to victim

loser, underdog

martyr, sacrifice

collateral damage

Near Antonyms of victim

gainer, victor, winner

harmer, injurer

assassin, killer, murderer

2 a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule

the victim of schoolyard teasing

Synonyms of victim

butt, mark, prey, sitting duck, target

Words Related to victim

laughingstock, mockery, pilgarlic

fall guy, goat, scapegoat, whipping boy

Near Antonyms of victim

gossip, gossiper, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, troublemaker

defamer, libeler, libelist, traducer

baiter, heckler, needler, ribber, taunter, tease, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer

derider, insulter, mocker, ridiculer, scoffer, scorner

caricaturist, lampooner, parodist, satirist

3 something offered to a god

the Aztecs are believed to have sacrificed thousands of victims annually to the sun

Synonyms of victim

immolation, offering, sacrifice

Words Related to victim

libation, oblation, propitiation

contribution, donation