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say it: di-PRAHYVD
deprived is an adjective meaning "marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences". It is pronounced /dɪˈpɹaɪvd/ — di-PRAHYVD. It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for deprived come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.