aggrieved

[ uh-greevd ]

adjective

1. wronged, offended, or injured:

   He felt himself aggrieved.

   Synonyms: wounded

2. Law. deprived of legal rights or claims.
3. troubled; worried; disturbed; unhappy.

aggrieved

/ əˈɡriːvɪdlɪ; əˈɡriːvd /

adjective

1. feeling resentment at having been treated unjustly

Derived Forms

• aggrievedly, adverb

Other Words From

• ag·griev·ed·ly [uh, -, gree, -vid-lee], adverb
• ag·grieved·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of aggrieved¹

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; aggrieve, -ed ²

Example Sentences

Despite the collective outpouring of grief and emotion in the days and weeks after Lennon’s death, the aggrieved widow was not really embraced by her husband’s mourning fans.

From Ozy

Interventions from — and lawsuits by — civil rights organizations, the federal government and aggrieved potential employees forced breweries to diversify their workforces in the 1970s and 1980s.

From Washington Post

Automatically posting your images or video to social media can add to the aggrieved party’s distress.

From Washington Post

We’ll shine a light on why so many Americans feel so aggrieved, and why they see the world and their place in it so differently.

From Washington Post

I was such a fan of the ever-so-innocent books, where the rudest thing ever said was “golly gosh,” that I was aggrieved to learn that the writer had a darker side.

From Ozy

In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when Partition happened.

From The Daily Beast

Some are genuinely aggrieved by the disruption caused to the transport system.

From The Daily Beast

I have written that actually black communities are quite aggrieved about black-on-black violence.

From The Daily Beast

I would rather not say it annoys me because it sounds so aggrieved and me-centered.

From The Daily Beast

Not just crazy-eyed Michele Bachmann or perpetually aggrieved Sarah Palin types.

From The Daily Beast

On Corpus Christi's Eve, the usual celebration greatly aggrieved the perth weekly assembly.

From Project Gutenberg

"I mean the secret that affects him" she interrupted, in aggrieved tones, feeling that Mr. Carr was playing with her.

From Project Gutenberg

Now-a-days, a real, good, wrong-headed aggrieved parishioner is exactly what you do want.

From Project Gutenberg

If he should be attacked by any who felt aggrieved by his recent proceedings, the Bishop was to help him at all costs.

From Project Gutenberg

The poorer towns felt themselves aggrieved, and often put insuperable obstacles in the way of the collector.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• disturbed
• grieving
• oppressed
• persecuted
• wronged