Usually means: Oppressed, suffering under unfair treatment.
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  1. downtrodden, the downtrodden: Merriam-Webster
  2. downtrodden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downtrodden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downtrodden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downtrodden: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downtrodden, downtrodden: Wordnik
  7. downtrodden: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downtrodden: Wiktionary
  9. downtrodden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downtrodden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downtrodden: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. downtrodden: Dictionary.com
  13. downtrodden: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downtrodden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Downtrodden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. downtrodden: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. downtrodden: FreeDictionary.org
  18. downtrodden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. downtrodden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. downtrodden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. downtrodden: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.
▸ adjective:  Trodden down.

Similar:
oppressed, persecute, wrong, undertrodden, defeated, under, downcast, abased, subdued, subjugate, more...

Opposite:
privileged, elite, upper class, upper-class, upper-crust

Types:
oppressed, subjugated, exploited, more...

Phrases:
downtrodden worker, downtrodden place, more...

Adjectives:
most, poorest, long, little, wretched, weak, sick, already, rural, black, worthy

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal, more...



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Similar:
oppressed, persecute, wrong, undertrodden, defeated, under, downcast, abased, subdued, subjugate, more...

Opposite:
privileged, elite, upper class, upper-class, upper-crust

Types:
oppressed, subjugated, exploited, more...

Phrases:
downtrodden worker, downtrodden place, more...

Adjectives:
most, poorest, long, little, wretched, weak, sick, already, rural, black, worthy

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dark blue,     charcoal, more...



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