Difference between Deprived and Underprivileged

What is the difference between Deprived and Underprivileged?

Deprived as an adjective is subject to deprivation; poor. while Underprivileged as an adjective is deprived of the opportunities and advantages of other members of one's community.

Deprived

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Subject to deprivation; poor.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.

Example sentence: With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Underprivileged

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of other members of one's community.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A deprived person; deprived people.

Example sentence: Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

We hope you now know whether to use Deprived or Underprivileged in your sentence.

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