needy

3 definitions found

needy - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Needy \Need"y\, a. [Compar. Needier; superl. Neediest.]
     1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor;
        indigent; necessitous.
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              Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to
              thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --Deut. xv.
                                                    11.
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              Spare the blushes of needy merit.     --Dr. T.
                                                    Dwight.
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     2. Necessary; requisite. [Obs.]
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              Corn to make your needy bread.        --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] Neeld

needy - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  needy
      adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute,
             impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy,
             poverty-stricken]
      2: demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to
         an excessive degree
      n 1: needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

needy - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "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