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Deprived - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | deprive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep or take away something wanted, needed |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, denude, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, dispossess, disrobe, divest, dock, expropriate, hold back, lose, oust, rob, seize, skim, stiff, strip, wrest |
| Antonyms: | appropriate, bestow, confer, endow, give, indulge, offer, present, supply |
| Main Entry: | deprived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impoverished |
| Synonyms: | broke, destitute, disadvantaged, needy, poor, underprivileged, wanting, dispossessed, in need |
| Main Entry: | bereft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking; missing |
| Synonyms: | cut off, destitute, devoid, impoverished, minus, naked, stripped, wanting, without, beggared, bereaved, deprived, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, left without, parted from, robbed, shorn |
| Antonyms: | full, happy |
| Main Entry: | disadvantaged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | underprivileged |
| Synonyms: | handicapped, impaired, impoverished, poor, deprived, discriminated against, hindered |
| Antonyms: | privileged, prosperous, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | underprivileged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
| Synonyms: | depressed, destitute, disadvantaged, handicapped, hapless, hard up*, ill-fated, impoverished, indigent, needy, unfortunate, unlucky, badly off, deprived, down and out, have-not, ill-starred, in dire straits, in need, in want |
| Antonyms: | privileged, rich, wealthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wanting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | absent, away, bankrupt, bereft, cut off, defective, deficient, destitute, devoid, disappointing, empty, failing, faulty, gone, half-baked*, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, less, minus, missing, needed, omitted, patchy, poor, scanty, scarce, short, shy, sketchy, substandard, unsound, burned out, cooked, deprived, in default, not good enough, not up to par, out of gas, scant, too little too late, unfulfilled |
| Antonyms: | adequate, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | restricted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | limited |
| Synonyms: | bound, bounded, closed, confined, cramped, fastened, frustrated, governed, inhibited, modified, prescribed, prevented, reduced, restrained, small, stopped, surrounded, barred, blocked, bridled, chained, checked, clogged, controlled, curbed, decreased, defined, deprived, deterred, diminished, encircled, encircled, fettered, foiled, hampered, held back, hitched, impeded, manacled, moderated, narrowed, obstructed, reined in, repressed, secured, shortened, stayed, suppressed, tempered, tethered |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, bare, barren, bereft, clear, destitute, devoid, drained, free, lacking, short, shy, unfilled, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, without, deprived, emptied, scant, tenantless |
| Notes: | void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, occupied |
| Main Entry: | depressed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disadvantaged |
| Synonyms: | destitute, distressed, ghetto, ghost, impaired, needy, poor, poverty-stricken, run-down, shanty, skid row*, underprivileged, weakened, cheapened, depreciated, deprived, devalued |
| Antonyms: | blessed, flourishing, prosperous, rich |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frustrate, thwart |
| Synonyms: | baffle, check, defeat, deprive, foil, prevent |
| Main Entry: | constrain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force; restrain |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, bind, bottle up, bridle, chain, check, coerce, compel, confine, constrict, cork, curb, deny, deprive, disallow, drive, hold back, immure, impel, imprison, incarcerate, inhibit, intern, jail, make, necessitate, oblige, pressure, stifle, urge, withhold, concuss, cool off, hem in, hog-tie, hold down, hold in, keep lid on, pressurize, put half nelson on, shotgun |
| Antonyms: | free, release, let go |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
| Synonyms: | abate, alleviate, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken, KO, anesthetize, etherize, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten |
| Antonyms: | animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | denude, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck, depopulate, depredate, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | disinherit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut off in will of bequeathal |
| Synonyms: | bereave, deprive, disown, dispossess, divest, evict, exclude, neglect, oust, repudiate, rob, cut off without a cent, disaffiliate, exheridate |
| Antonyms: | bequeath, give |
| Main Entry: | dismantle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take apart |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, bankrupt, bare, break up, decimate, demolish, denude, deprive, destroy, disassemble, dismember, dismount, disrobe, divest, fell, level, pull down, raze, ruin, strike, strip, subvert, take down, tear down, undo, wrack, wreck, break down, denudate, knock down, part out, take to pieces, unrig |
| Antonyms: | assemble, build, combine, construct, put together, raise |
| Main Entry: | disrobe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take off one's clothes |
| Synonyms: | bare, denude, deprive, dismantle, divest, doff, husk*, peel*, remove, shed, shuck*, strip, unbutton, uncover, undress, denudate, slip out of, take it off, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, put on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispossess; take off |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bare, bereave, bleed, denude, deprive, despoil, disinherit, dismantle, disrobe, ditch*, doff, dump, eighty-six*, lose, milk*, oust, plunder, remove, rob, seize, spoil, strip, uncover, undress, unload, denudate, take from, unclothe |
| Antonyms: | clothe, cover, invest, possess, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | do for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | defeat, deprive, finish, kill, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay |
| Antonyms: | bear, create |
| Main Entry: | do out of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat |
| Synonyms: | balk, bilk, con, deceive, deprive, steal, swindle, trick, beat out of |
| Main Entry: | enslave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make someone a servant |
| Synonyms: | bind, capture, chain, check, circumscribe, coerce, compel, confine, deprive, dominate, enclose, enthrall, fetter, hobble, hold, immure, imprison, incarcerate, indenture, jail, oppress, reduce, restrain, restrict, secure, shackle, subdue, subject, subjugate, suppress, tether, tie, yoke, disenfranchise, disfranchise, enchain, get hooks into, keep under thumb, put in irons, shut in |
| Antonyms: | allow, emancipate, free, liberate, let go |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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