unperson

n. 没落人物, 被冷落的人

词形变化

unpeople unpersons 复数 unpersons unpeople 复数 unpersoned unpersoning unpersons 三单 unpersoning 现在分词 unpersoned 过去式 unpersoned 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.

    非人

    With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.

v.
  1. 1.

    To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

nonperson

上位词 3

actor worker doer

词源

From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.

来源：wiktionary