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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
deprived \deprived\ adjective marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental or social influences; as, 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.
Syn: disadvantaged. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deprive \De*prive"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Deprived}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Depriving}.] [LL. deprivare, deprivatium, to divest of office; L. de- + privare to bereave, deprive: cf. OF. depriver. See {Private}.]
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.]
'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. --Shak.
2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.
God hath deprived her of wisdom. --Job xxxix. 17.
It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself. --Macaulay.
3. To divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
A minister deprived for inconformity. --Bacon.
Syn: To strip; despoil; rob; abridge.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deprived
adjective: 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" [syn: {disadvantaged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprived": badly off, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, depressed, destitute, disadvantaged, fatherless, fleeced, ghettoized, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant, motherless, necessitous, needy, on relief, orphan, orphaned, out at elbows, parentless, pauperized, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged, widowed
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