Disadvantaged

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disadvantaged
       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" [syn: {deprived}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "disadvantaged":
     beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poor,
     chronic poverty area, common, demeaning, depressed,
     depressed class, depressed population, deprived, fleeced,
     ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, humble, impoverished, in need,
     in rags, in the shade, in want, indigent, inferior, infra dig,
     junior, less, lesser, low, lower, lowly, mendicant, minor, modest,
     necessitous, needy, on relief, ordinary, out at elbows, outcasts,
     pauperized, poverty subculture, poverty-stricken, second rank,
     second string, secondary, servile, slum-dwellers, starveling,
     stripped, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient,
     the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the distressed,
     the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy,
     the other America, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged,
     the urban poor, third rank, third string, underdeveloped nation,
     underprivileged, vulgar, welfare rolls