'Needy' definitions:
Definition of 'needy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken]
adjective
Demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
noun
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"
Definition of 'Needy'
From: GCIDE
- Needy \Need"y\, a. [Compar. Needier; superl. Neediest.]
- 1. 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. --Deut. xv. 11. [1913 Webster]
- Spare the blushes of needy merit. --Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Necessary; requisite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Corn to make your needy bread. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Neeld
Synonyms of 'needy'
From: 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,
- 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