disenfranchised

2 definitions • 3 examples

not having the right to vote, or a similar right, or having had that right taken away:

Hundreds of thousands of teenagers and particularly teenage girls are utterly disenfranchised in this culture.

having no power to make people listen to your opinion or to affect the society you live in:

The most common shared characteristics among Florida's 175,000 disenfranchised voters were income and education.

disenfranchised youth/communities