Meaning of NEEDY
| Pronunciation: | | 'needee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] poor enough to need help from others |
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| | Synonyms: | | destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poor, poverty-stricken |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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