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needy

noun

1 needy

Needy people collectively.

adjective

1 needy

Poor enough to need help from others.

synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken.

Roget 804: 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, ... show more

2 needy

Demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree.


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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