Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of disadvantage
comparative more disadvantaged · superlative most disadvantaged
- Lacking an advantage relative to another.
Devon's economy may be more broadly based, but like Cornwall it is still disadvantaged compared with other counties of southern England.
2023 June 14, Anthony Lambert, “A vision for transport in the South West”, in RAIL, number 985, page 38 - euphemisticPoor; in financial difficulties.
And it gets better. If 10% of those 17,000 new jobs employ people from a disadvantaged background, the value rises to £8.3bn.
2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in RAIL, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemarked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch kansarm
- kansarmlacking an advantage relative to another
Finnish alakynnessä, vähävarainen
- alakynnessälacking an advantage relative to another
- vähävaraineneuphemistic: poor
- huono-osaineneuphemistic: poor
German benachteiligt, benachteiligt
- benachteiligtlacking an advantage relative to another
- benachteiligteuphemistic: poor
Spanish desaventajado, desventajado
- desaventajadolacking an advantage relative to another
- desventajadolacking an advantage relative to another
Swedish missgynnad, eftersatt
- missgynnadlacking an advantage relative to another
- eftersattlacking an advantage relative to another
Tagalog agrabyado
- agrabyadolacking an advantage relative to another
Cite this entry
disadvantaged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disadvantaged
“disadvantaged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disadvantaged. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disadvantaged,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disadvantaged.
Source: disadvantaged on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.