'Deprived' definitions:
Definition of 'deprived'
From: WordNet
adjective
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, disadvantaged]
Definition of 'Deprived'
From: GCIDE
- Deprive \De*prive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deprived; p. pr. & vb. n. Depriving.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See Private.]
- 1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. [1913 Webster]
- God hath deprived her of wisdom. --Job xxxix. 17. [1913 Webster]
- It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical. [1913 Webster]
- A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
- Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'deprived'
From: GCIDE
- deprived \deprived\ adj. marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, 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: disadvantaged. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'deprived'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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