Usually means: Deprived of possessions or home.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word dispossessed:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossessed, the dispossessed: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispossessed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dispossessed, the dispossessed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dispossessed: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dispossessed, dispossessed: Wordnik
  6. dispossessed, the dispossessed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dispossessed: Wiktionary
  8. dispossessed: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Dispossessed, dispossessed: Dictionary.com
  10. dispossessed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Dispossessed (band), Dispossessed, The Dispossessed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Dispossessed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dispossessed: Rhymezone
  14. Dispossessed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. dispossessed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. dispossessed: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dispossessed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dispossessed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. dispossessed: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispossessed: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. The Dispossessed, dispossessed: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Homeless
▸ adjective:  Impoverished

Similar:
homeless, unfortunate, roofless, soilless, unhoused, houseless, hutless, laden, dislocated, abodeless, more...

Opposite:
possessed, affluent, wealthy, secure

Types:
homeless, evicted, exiled, stateless, refugee, asylum seeker, more...

Phrases:
The Dispossessed, more...

Adjectives:
urban, rural, self, first, last, present, poor, young, black, modern, italian

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Similar:
homeless, unfortunate, roofless, soilless, unhoused, houseless, hutless, laden, dislocated, abodeless, more...

Opposite:
possessed, affluent, wealthy, secure

Types:
homeless, evicted, exiled, stateless, refugee, asylum seeker, more...

Phrases:
The Dispossessed, more...

Adjectives:
urban, rural, self, first, last, present, poor, young, black, modern, italian

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia,     umber, more...



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