disadvantaged

disadvantaged
    adj 1: marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of
           life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood
           that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off
           charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the
           family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral
           degradation, and disregard for law" [syn: {deprived},
           {disadvantaged}]
    

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "disadvantaged":
      beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poor,
      chronic poverty area, common, demeaning, depressed,
      depressed class, depressed population, deprived, fleeced,
      ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, humble, impoverished, in need,
      in rags, in the shade, in want, indigent, inferior, infra dig,
      junior, less, lesser, low, lower, lowly, mendicant, minor, modest,
      necessitous, needy, on relief, ordinary, out at elbows, outcasts,
      pauperized, poverty subculture, poverty-stricken, second rank,
      second string, secondary, servile, slum-dwellers, starveling,
      stripped, sub, subaltern, subject, subordinate, subservient,
      the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the distressed,
      the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy,
      the other America, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged,
      the urban poor, third rank, third string, underdeveloped nation,
      underprivileged, vulgar, welfare rolls