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

In other words, for many who labor to care for our city’s neediest, this is a mission as much as a livelihood.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
An Atlanta social media personality with more than 2 million followers across platforms has been federally indicted for allegedly fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million from a federal program that helps feed needy Georgia families.

— Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of needy

Adjective

The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed in the impoverished country.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026
The white South African group governed the nation for decades under a brutal system of segregation known as apartheid, which kept the Black majority an impoverished underclass until the system was dismantled in 1994.

— Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of impoverished

Adjective

Overall the foundation has reached and supported about 380,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable people globally since its founding.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
Companies would get a tax credit if the jobs are located within economically disadvantaged regions designated by a city formula that mostly covers the South, Southwest and West sides.

— Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 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

Yet after the apparent death of Captain Crewe in World War I, Sara’s headmistress confines the now-penniless child in the school’s attic.

— Sohini Sarah Pillai, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2026
In the summer of 1927 three young men of means ran into a neighbor from back home in Winnetka, Illinois, on the streets of Paris, who was stranded with a penniless delegation of labor leaders and educators intended for Moscow.

— Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 1 Aug. 2026

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