'underprivileged' definitions:
Definition of 'underprivileged'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society [ant: privileged]
Synonyms of 'underprivileged'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- badly off,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- chronic poor,
- chronic poverty area,
- common,
- demeaning,
- depressed,
- depressed class,
- depressed population,
- deprived,
- dire,
- disadvantaged,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fleeced,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- ghetto-dwellers,
- ghettoized,
- handicapped,
- hapless,
- humble,
- ill off,
- ill-fated,
- ill-starred,
- impoverished,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in the shade,
- in want,
- inauspicious,
- indigent,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- luckless,
- mendicant,
- minor,
- modest,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- ominous,
- on relief,
- ordinary,
- out at elbows,
- out of luck,
- outcasts,
- pauperized,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poverty subculture,
- poverty-stricken,
- sad,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- short of luck,
- slum-dwellers,
- star-crossed,
- 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,
- unblessed,
- underdeveloped nation,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- vulgar,
- welfare rolls