'disadvantaged' definitions:
Definition of 'disadvantaged'
(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]
Synonyms of 'disadvantaged'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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