overprivileged
English
editEtymology
editFrom over- + privileged.
Adjective
editoverprivileged (comparative more overprivileged, superlative most overprivileged)
- Being too privileged; specifically, having more advantages or opportunities than others, especially when being regarded as undeserving or unworthy of such advantages and opportunities.
- 2007 March 29, “Service Benefits Kids (1 Letter)”, in New York Times[1]:
- If overprivileged private school kids see that there are people in the world less fortunate than they are, that is undoubtedly a good thing.