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- Dictionarydeprived/dɪˈprʌɪvd/
adjective
- 1. suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits: "the charity cares for destitute and deprived children"
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The meaning of DEPRIVED is marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences. How to use deprived in a sentence.
not having the things that are necessary for a pleasant life, such as enough money, food, or good living conditions: She had a deprived childhood /comes from a deprived background. a deprived area. Synonym. disadvantaged. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. not having much or enough money.
to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: be deprived of He claimed that he had been deprived of his freedom. It is very damaging to deprive a child of affection. You can't function properly when you're deprived of sleep. Fewer examples. He complained that his captors had deprived him of his basic human rights.
: to take something away from. deprived him of his professorship J. M. Phalen. the risk of injury when the brain is deprived of oxygen. 2. : to withhold something from. deprived a citizen of her rights. 3. : to remove from office. the Archbishop … would be deprived and sent to the Tower Edith Sitwell. 4. obsolete : remove.
to prevent someone from having something, especially something that they need: be deprived of He claimed that he had been deprived of his freedom. It is very damaging to deprive a child of affection. You can't function well when you're deprived of sleep. Fewer examples. He complained that his captors had deprived him of his basic human rights.
Deprived definition: marked by deprivation; lacking the necessities of life, as adequate food and shelter. See examples of DEPRIVED used in a sentence.
verb (used with object) , de·prived, de·priv·ing. to remove or withhold something from the enjoyment or possession of (a person or persons): to deprive a man of life; to deprive a baby of candy. to remove from ecclesiastical office. deprive.
verb. If you deprive someone of something that they want or need, you take it away from them, or you prevent them from having it. The disintegration of the Soviet Union deprived western intelligence agencies of their main enemies. [V n of n] They've been deprived of the fuel necessary to heat their homes. [VERB noun + of]
Definition of deprived adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You can use the adjective deprived to describe conditions or people who don’t have what they need or don't have enough. Some uses of deprived are for small things, like when you're deprived of dessert because you didn’t eat your vegetables, but most of the time deprived describes a very serious lack of essential things or services.
