underprivileged
/ˈʌndɚpɹˈɪvlədʒd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.92 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
Example Sentences
- "Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage"
- "Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English privileged English underprivileged From under- + privileged.
Inflected Forms
more underprivileged (comparative)
most underprivileged (superlative)