dispossessed

dispossessed
adj
1. evicted, ousted, expelled, ejected, cast out, Sl. bounced; uprooted, unhoused, banished, exiled, deported, expatriated; excluded, shut out, blackballed, blacklisted, ostracized, banned, outlawed.
2. displaced, rootless, homeless, outcast, disenfranchised; wandering, vagrant, nomadic, vagabond, itinerant, unsettled.
3. disinherited, disaffiliated, alienated, lost, abandoned; demoralized, debilitated, disoriented, confused, purposeless, goalless, guideless; shaken, unstable, unsteady, uncertain, floundering, Inf. at sea.

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  • dispossessed — index poor (underprivileged) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • dispossessed — dis|pos|sessed [ ,dıspə zest ] adjective FORMAL people who are dispossessed have had something valuable such as their land taken away from them a. the dispossessed people who are dispossessed …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • dispossessed — UK [ˌdɪspəˈzest] / US adjective formal a) people who are dispossessed have had something valuable such as their land taken away from them b) the dispossessed people who are dispossessed …   English dictionary

  • dispossessed — adjective 1 having had property or land taken away 2 the dispossessed (plural) people who are dispossessed …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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  • dispossessed — /dis peuh zest /, adj. 1. evicted, as from a dwelling, land, etc.; ousted. 2. without property, status, etc., as wandering or displaced persons; rootless; disfranchised. 3. having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, relationships, etc.; …   Universalium

  • dispossessed — dis|pos|sessed [ˌdıspəˈzest] n the dispossessed people who have had property or land taken away …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • dispossessed —    indigent    Those so described are unlikely to have owned valuable possessions in the first place:     There the spit and polish troops are immigration police; the hordes, the Mexicans, Haitians, and other dispossessed people seeking illegal… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • dispossessed — adjective Date: 15th century deprived of homes, possessions, and security …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • dispossessed — adjective a) homeless b) impoverished …   Wiktionary

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