Word.ws English Dictionary

perfect victims

perfect victims is the plural of perfect victim.

Meaning of perfect victim

Noun

perfect victim (plural perfect victims)

  1. A victim of abuse who is blameless in all aspects of their interactions with the offender, often characterized by vulnerability, believability and respectability.
    • The perfect victim, according to Dr Jason B. Whiting, is someone who is weak or vulnerable and “involved in a respectable activity at the time of victimization”. Therefore, the victim must be “blameless in all aspects of the interaction” with their offender, who is a stranger to them.2023 October 20, Kim Machray, “The 'Perfect Victim' Myth”, in Empoword Journal

Questions about perfect victims

What is perfect victims the plural of?
Perfect victims is the plural of perfect victim.

Words near perfect victims in the dictionary

  1. perfect twelfth
  2. perfect twelfths
  3. perfect unison
  4. perfect unisons
  5. perfect victim
  6. perfect victims
  7. perfect wave
  8. perfect waves
  9. perfect-bound
  10. perfecta
  11. perfectability

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perfect victims (page history and authors); perfect victim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “perfect victims.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perfect_victims. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.