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Meaning of DEPRIVED

Pronunciation:  dupr'Ivd

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 Definition: [adj]  marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"
 
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 Synonyms: disadvantaged, underprivileged
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed, destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, parentless, pauperized, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged, widowed
 

 

 

 

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