Aggrieved

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeling distress or affliction.
  • adj. Treated wrongly; offended.
  • adj. Law Treated unjustly, as by denial of or infringement upon one's legal rights.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Angry or resentful due to unjust treatment.
  • adj. Having one's rights denied or curtailed.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of aggrieve.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. subjected to an injustice.
  • Word Usage
    "My force has just decided that for the next month, on a trial basis, all crimes where the aggrieved is of a minority ethnic group will be allocated to an officer for investigation, regardless of the evidence or lack of."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    injured    wronged   
    Verb Stem
    aggrieve   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    achieved    believed    bereaved    conceived    deceived    grieved    heaved    interleaved    misconceived    misperceived