deprived

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsdisadvantaged

   Similarunderprivileged

Other forms of deprived

comparative

deprivedder·

superlative

depriveddest·

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.

Questions about deprived

What does deprived mean?

deprived means "marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences".

How many syllables are in deprived?

deprived has 2 syllables: de-prived. The stress falls on "prived". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɹaɪvd/.

What is another word for deprived?

Close synonyms include disadvantaged. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deprived a common word?

deprived is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.