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marginalized
[ mahr-juh-nl-ahyzd ]
adjective
- placed in a position of little or no importance, influence, or power:
Technology has the power to amplify the voices of marginalized communities and strengthen our democracy.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of marginalize ( def ).
Word History and Origins
Origin of marginalized1
Example Sentences
As a function of the race-wealth gap, African-Americans, Hispanics and Latinos, Native Americans and members of other marginalized communities have even less in savings than the average white American.
“My intention was to show people the courage it takes to be a person who’s been marginalized and to still love yourself,” said López over a Zoom call.
“How much contempt is stirred up at times toward the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants!” he said in his Easter address, shortly before his death.
The already marginalized deep red rural America will be deeply affected.
The name honors Francis of Assisi, who lived in service of the poor and marginalized and preached care of the environment, and Francis Xavier, a 16th century Jesuit who spread the Gospel in Asia.
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