Synonyms of the word

underprivileged

• adj. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others.
• n. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

deprived

• adj. Subject to deprivation; poor.
• v. past participle of deprive.

disadvantaged

• v. simple past tense and past participle of disadvantage.
• adj. Lacking an advantage relative to another.
• adj. Poor; in financial difficulties.

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

underclass

• n. the poorest class of people in a given society.

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.