Etymology

overprivileged

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Today it means: Being too privileged; specifically, having more advantages or opportunities than others, especially when being regarded as undeserving or unworthy of such advantages and opportunities. Full definition →

English privileged ← Middle English over- ← Old English ofer-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishprivileged
  8. English todayoverprivileged

From over- + privileged.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.