UNPRIVILEGED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

unprivileged

adjective

Definition of unprivileged

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Recent Examples of unprivileged The researchers demonstrate how an unprivileged remote attacker can then recover secrets stored in Gmail, Amazon, and Reddit when the target is authenticated. — Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025 Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee. — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022 Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver? — Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020

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Adjective

At school, there are prickly Principal Anderson (Matt Oberg) and Donna (Amy Pietz, nice to see her), his good-hearted secretary, a champion of needy teens and, it will be revealed, Liz’s mother.

— Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Operated by New Hope CORPS, the former hotel provides housing and social services to needy seniors.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026

Definition of needy

Adjective

Powell, who was indigent and could not afford an attorney, wrote his own motions to the court six times in the ensuing years, trying multiple routes to overturn his conviction or at least reduce his prison time.

— Andy Rose, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
California’s Welfare and Institutions Code (Section 17000) requires the counties to provide indigent medical care/meet the healthcare needs of the county.

— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026

Definition of indigent

Adjective

Funds have also been raised to send underprivileged children to different day camps, and a scholarship has been established at her theater group, Lindsey says.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Now, Emanuel is raising money for a New Hampshire nonprofit organization that provides bicycles to underprivileged children, in addition to raising his profile.

— Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2026

Definition of underprivileged

Adjective

In his recent memoir, Newsom describes being divided between his life as the son of an impoverished single mother and the surrogate son of a family with billions in oil industry money.

— Dan Walters, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
This British drama series follows a woman named Emma over the course of more than six decades of her life, from the 1900s through the 1970s, working her way from impoverished maid to the world’s richest woman.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026

Definition of impoverished

Adjective

His organization, Humus, had been hired by local philanthropist Maria Antonia Civita and her organization Verde Scola, a local after school program for disadvantaged kids that had turned into the hub of aid distribution after the landslides.

— Josh Fox, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
The city is prioritizing equitable access to chargers, specifically for residents of apartments and multifamily housing, disadvantaged and underserved communities, small businesses and publicly accessible locations, according to the city’s website.

— Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026

Definition of disadvantaged

Adjective

Traumatized into silence, the de facto orphan stays living with the kindly but guilt-ridden, grieving and impecunious Hiroshi.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 12 June 2026
Since then, it has been performed across much of the world, being ideally suited to these impecunious times and very masterfully written.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of impecunious

Adjective

Nearly penniless in Missouri during the height of the Depression, both women’s financial futures hinged entirely on the book’s success.

— Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
Demoustier stars as a penniless young woman called Suzanne working on the ‘Venus Electrificata’ sideshow of a traveling fair meting out electrifying kisses to unsuspecting paying bystanders, while secretly being charged with electricity.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 May 2026

Definition of penniless

Adjective

Foster died destitute in 1864, after falling and injuring himself in the bathroom of a hotel on the Bowery, becoming perhaps the first of many famous wastrels in American popular music.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Early state laws offered limited divorce grounds, often leaving women destitute.

— Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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