deprived

de-prived · adjective

imported

Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    Suffering from a lack of basic necessities or opportunities.

  2. 2.

    Lacking something considered essential.

  3. 3.

    Past tense and past participle of *deprive*; took away something from someone.

Related words

Antonyms: advantaged, affluent, privileged
See also: deprivation, deprive, disadvantaged
Synonyms: destitute, disadvantaged, lacking, underprivileged

Etymology

From Latin deprivare, from de- (away) + privare (to bereave, deprive), from privus (single, one's own). First recorded in English in the 14th century.