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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

lacking basic resources or advantages that other people have;

e.g. The scholarship is for students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds.

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Similar Words

Cash-strapped

Depressed

Deprived

Dispossessed

Insolvent

Underprivileged

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Opposite Words

Advantaged

Affluent

Blessed

Comfortable

Fat

Fat cat

Flourishing

Flush

Fortunate

Happy

Loaded

Lucky

Moneyed

Monied

Opulent

Propertied

Prosperous

Rich

Silk

Silk-stocking

Successful

Thriving

Wealthy

Well-heeled

Well-off

Well-to-do

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Related Words

And

Bankrupt

Beggarly

Broke

Destitute

Dirt-poor

Dispossessed

Down-and-out

Famished

Impecunious

Impoverished

Indigent

Insolvent

Needful

Needy

Penniless

Penurious

Poor

Poverty-stricken

Skint

Threadbare

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