disenfranchised
- adjective
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈfrænˌtʃaɪzd/
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desposeído
- Activists are fighting for the rights of disenfranchised individuals who have been excluded from participating in elections.
So a lot of tech money felt disenfranchised.
- So a lot of tech money felt disenfranchised.
- Because what I saw that day was a man that was disenfranchised with society that hated the system.
- It's really the feeling that you are disenfranchised.
- It's it's in reaction to globalization that people people feel sometimes disenfranchised, sometimes alienated.
- These groups each employed a range of strategies that are available to disenfranchised interest groups.
- The bureaucrat starts off with a photograph of the industrial city, smoke belching out of pipes, workers disenfranchised.
- But if you look in practice, groups that are very disenfranchised and don't have any actual power usually get screwed.
- But he's so he's been, he's now been so disenfranchised with all of Trump's lies, he decided to do the right thing and get rid of Trump.
- I know how it feels to be disenfranchised, so I want to understand why they feel the need to have a men's right movement.
- He looked at Guy Winch's work, who calls it disenfranchised grief.
- So he's he's making that sacrifice at the price of Black History Month and Pride Month, which are two groups of historically disenfranchised prejudice.
Examples
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Thousands of Floridians were disenfranchised and they were a conservative court, a lot of them appointed by George HW Bush.
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Many disenfranchised citizens feel that their voices are not heard in political decisions.
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So I believe that young men are disenfranchised with the direction that society is trying to take them, particularly in the West.
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These groups each employed a range of strategies that are available to disenfranchised interest groups.
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And I strongly understand why disenfranchised groups feel the way they feel about the whole whole barrel of law enforcement.
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Because so many girls like me have been disenfranchised and marginalised and silenced by those in power.
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It looks at how rulemakings, policy makings, laws affect poor disenfranchised people trying to simply get by.
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The new law aimed to empower disenfranchised communities by giving them greater access to the voting process.
Synonyms
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5.8
People who cannot speak or whose opinions others do not hear
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7.0
Not able to make decisions or influence things
People who have lost the right to vote and other basic rights
A person who cannot vote because they lack citizenship or legal qualifications
Antonyms
How Enfranchised
- Formal
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4.2
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4.6
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6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
disenfranchised = disenfranchise (semi-transparent) = dis + en + franchise + ed
The adjective is a straightforward participial form of the verb 'disenfranchise'.
Etymology
Disenfranchised comes from dis- 'not' and franchise 'a right or freedom', and franchise is the same word we use for the 'right to vote'. So disenfranchised means 'not given rights', especially the vote, and therefore someone has 'no power or voice'.