disadvantaged

Speech parts

1. disadvantaged - Adjective

2. disadvantaged - Verb

3. disadvantaged - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

cinderella vulnerable disadvantage deprived impoverished needy dispossessed indigent complainant impecunious sad sack handicapped poverty-stricken penalisation necessitous

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Antonyms

privileged fortunate edged laureled well-off podded

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Phrases with the word

financially disadvantaged disadvantaged boy economically disadvantaged be disadvantaged more disadvantaged socially disadvantaged person

Examples

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged. Pauline Hanson

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. James Heckman

Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial. Catharine MacKinnon

Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards. I say it is discrimination to require anything less–-the soft bigotry of low expectations. George W. Bush

I can provide one living example of someone who made it and who came from what we now call a disadvantaged background: me. Ben Carson

It is also often argued that neo-liberalism, especially neo-liberal economics, helps those in the advantaged categories and hurts, often badly, those in the disadvantaged categories. George Ritzer

Close letter words and terms

disadvance disadvantage disadvantageable disadvantaged boy disadvantaged minority disadvantaged population