deprived
Meaning of deprived
adjective
- suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits.
the charity cares for destitute and deprived children
- prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.
the city was deprived of its water supplies
Middle English (in the sense ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare (see private).
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Hyphenation of deprived
de-prived
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 letters.
- deprived is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
deprived synonyms
Meaning disadvantaged:
Meaning (of a person) not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of people in a society:
Meaning (of a person or area) made poor:
Meaning lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society:
Meaning extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself:
Meaning (of a person) lacking the necessities of life; very poor:
Meaning (of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment:
Meaning suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
Meaning extremely poor; poverty-stricken:
Meaning having little or no money:
Meaning (of a person) lacking the necessities of life; needy:
Meaning deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions:
Meaning deprive someone of (rank, power, or property):
Meaning deprive someone of (power, rights, or possessions):
Meaning cause (pain, distress, or difficulty) to become less severe or serious:
Meaning be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death:
Meaning state that one refuses to admit the truth or existence of:
deprived antonyms
Meaning favoured by or involving good luck; lucky:
Meaning having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich:
Translation of deprived
- French: défavorisé
- Spanish: desfavorecido, desfavorecida
- Italian: sfavorito
Words that rhyme with deprived
glaived, unwaived, waived, dived, misdidived, misdived, nosedived, skydived, updived, apperceived, conceived, deceived, imperceived, interreceived, malconceived, misconceived, misperceived, perceived, preconceived, predeceived, prereceived, received, reconceived, redeceived, reived, reperceived, unapperceived, unconceived, undeceived, unperceived, unreceived, gived, misgived, ogived, archived, chived, hived, unarchived, unhived, jived, skived, lived, mislived, olived, outlived, overlived, relived, slived, unlived, beknived
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