deprived
adjective
[ dɪˈprʌɪvd ]
• suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits.
• "the charity cares for destitute and deprived children"
Similar:
disadvantaged,
underprivileged,
poverty-stricken,
impoverished,
poor,
destitute,
needy,
in need,
in want,
badly off,
unable to make ends meet,
in reduced circumstances,
depressed,
distressed,
forlorn,
on the bread line,
penurious,
impecunious,
necessitous,
deprive
verb
• prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.
• "the city was deprived of its water supplies"
Similar:
dispossess,
strip,
divest,
relieve,
bereave,
rob of,
cheat out of,
trick out of,
do out of,
deny,
prevent from having,
prevent from using,
diddle out of,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘depose from office’): from Old French depriver, from medieval Latin deprivare, from de- ‘away, completely’ + privare (see private).
