Needy

a.	1.	Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; 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 blushes of needy merit. - Dr. T. Dwight.
	2.	Necessary; requisite. Corn to make your needy bread. - Shak.

Adj.

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needy - poor enough to need help from others Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken

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, insolvent, mendicant, necessitous, on relief, on welfare, out at elbows, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, 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