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1. dispossessed
adjective. ['ˌdɪspəˈzɛst'] physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
Antonyms
Rhymes with Dispossessed
- self-professed
- transgressed
- unimpressed
- telequest
- stateswest
- intrawest
- eastern-west
- unaddressed
- telewest
- repossessed
- reinvest
- progressed
- northwest
- indigest
- expressed
- distressed
- compressed
- undressed
- sylvest
- suppressed
- suggest
- southwest
- request
- repressed
- reassessed
- protest
- professed
- penwest
- norwest
- natwest
Sentences with dispossessed
1. Verb, past participle
People are dispossessed of their land and their livelihoods.
Quotes about dispossessed
1. Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?
- Mother Teresa, Heart of Joy
2. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
- Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
