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All advantaged antonyms

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adjective advantaged

  • disadvantaged — lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.

adj advantaged

  • unpopular — not popular; disliked or ignored by the public or by persons generally.
  • disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
  • disadvantageous — characterized by or involving disadvantage; unfavorable; detrimental.
  • underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
  • prevented — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
  • known — past participle of know1 .
  • poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
  • open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
  • public — of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: public funds; a public nuisance.
  • pre-exempt — to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release: to exempt a student from an examination.

verb advantaged

  • dissatisfy — to cause to be displeased, especially by failing to provide something expected or desired.
  • fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
  • take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
  • decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
  • hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
  • block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
  • impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
  • obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
  • injure — to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
  • worsen — Make or become worse.
  • handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
  • harm — a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
  • halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
  • stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
  • destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
  • anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
  • displease — to incur the dissatisfaction, dislike, or disapproval of; offend; annoy: His reply displeased the judge.
  • refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
  • refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
  • idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
  • lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
  • receive — to take into one's possession (something offered or delivered): to receive many gifts.
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