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Needy

Needy Meaning & Definition
Needy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Needy?

[adj] poor enough to need help from others

Synonyms | Synonyms for Needy: destitute | impoverished | indigent | necessitous | poor | poverty-stricken

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 rolls

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Needy In Webster's Dictionary

\Need"y\, a. [Compar. {Needer}; superl. {Neediest}.] 1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous. Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --Deut. xv. 11. Spare the bluches of needly merit. --Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Necessary; requiste. [Obs.] Corn to make your needy bread. --Shak.

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