deprivation

deprivation is a 11-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
2. noun. The state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.
3. noun. the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
4. noun. act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

   "nutritional privation"

   "deprivation of civil rights"

   Synonyms: privation

5. noun. the disadvantage that results from losing something

   "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"

   "losing him is no great deprivation"

   Synonyms: loss

6. noun. a state of extreme poverty

   Synonyms: neediness, privation, want

Synonyms

privation, loss, neediness, want

Common word forms

deprivations

Words from these letters

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