dispossessed vs minus

dispossessed

• Impoverished 

• Homeless 

minus

• Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction. 

• That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale. 

• Ranking just below (a designated rating). 

• The minus sign (−). 

• A negative quantity. 

• A downside or disadvantage. 

• Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity). 

• Without; deprived of. 

• To subtract.