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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Needy has 1 sense
- needy(n = noun.group) Array - needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy" is a kind of poor, poor people
Adjective Needy has 2 senses
- needy(s = adj.all) destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken - poor enough to need help from others; Array Derived forms noun need4, noun neediness1
- needy(s = adj.all) Array - demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree; Array Derived form noun neediness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Needy, a.
- Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous. [1913 Webster]"Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land." [1913 Webster]"Spare the blushes of needy merit." [1913 Webster]
- Necessary; requisite. [1913 Webster]"Corn to make your needy bread." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Needy, adj. (needier, neediest)
1 (of a person) poor; destitute.
2 (of circumstances) characterized by poverty.
1 (of a person) poor; destitute.
2 (of circumstances) characterized by poverty.
Derivative
neediness n.
THESAURUS
Needy
beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poverty area, dead, depressed population, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down-and-out, flat, fleeced, ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags, in reduced circumstances, in want, indigent, insolvent, mendicant, necessitous, on relief, on welfare, out at elbows, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, strapped, stripped, the disadvantaged, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the underprivileged, the urban poor, underdeveloped nation, underprivileged, unprosperous, up against it, welfare rollsROGET THESAURUS
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Poverty
N poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, neediness, lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door, bad circumstances, poor circumstances, need circumstances, embarrassed circumstances, reduced circumstances, straightened circumstances, slender means, narrow means, straits, hand to mouth existence, res angusta domi, low water, impecuniosity, beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, broken fortune, loss of fortune, insolvency, empty pocket, empty purse, light purse, beggarly account of empty boxes, poor man, pauper, mendicant, mumper, beggar, starveling, pauvre diable, fakir, schnorrer, homeless person, poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, badly off, poorly off, ill off, poor as a rat, poor as a church mouse, poor as a Job, fortuneless, dowerless, moneyless, penniless, unportioned, unmoneyed, impecunious, out of money, out of cash, short of money, short of cash, without a rap, not worth a rap, qui n'a pas le sou, out of pocket, hard up, out at elbows, out at heels, seedy, bare-footed, beggarly, beggared, destitute, fleeced, stripped, bereft, bereaved, reduced, homeless, in want, needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened, put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts, unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet, embarrassed, under hatches, involved, insolvent, in forma pauperis, zonam perdidit, a penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree, a pobreza no hay verguenza, he that is down can fall no lower, poca roba poco pensiero, steeped, in poverty to the very lips, the short and simple annals of the poor.
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