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privileged

When you're privileged, you enjoy some special right or advantage that most people don't have. You could be privileged to live in a lighthouse and have a spectacular view of the bay.

People can be privileged in many different ways, but it always means that they're getting some unusual deal that others probably envy. You can be privileged because you have plenty of money and get to travel the world, or you can be privileged to know interesting people who inspire you. Another meaning of privileged is private or exclusive, as in privileged information that's only available to a few people.

DEFINITIONS OF: privileged

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adj blessed with privileges

“the privileged few”
Synonyms
fortunate
having unexpected good fortune
sweetheart
privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically)
rich
possessing material wealth
Antonyms:
underprivileged
lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
unfortunate
not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
deprived, disadvantaged
marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
underclass
belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum
poor
having little money or few possessions
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adj confined to an exclusive group

privileged information”
Synonyms:
inner, inside
exclusive
excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

adj not subject to usual rules or penalties

“a privileged statement”
Synonyms
exempt
(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
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