What is another word for needy?
316 synonyms found
What is needy?
What is a person who is needy?
Is it good to be needy?
Pronunciation:
[ nˈiːdi], [ nˈiːdi], [ n_ˈiː_d_i]
Related words: needy people, needy plants, people who need someone, neediness, wants and needs, people in need, the need
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Similar words for needy:
- all (adjective)
- broke (adjective)
- deprived (adjective)
- deprived, impoverished (adjective)
- deserving (adjective)
- destitute (adjective)
- disadvantaged (adjective)
- down-and-out (adjective)
- downtrodden (adjective)
- impoverished (adjective)
- indigent (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- necessitous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- penniless (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- poverty-stricken (adjective)
- underprivileged (adjective)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Needy:
adj.
• all (adjective) • broke (adjective) • deprived (adjective) • deprived, impoverished (adjective)- flat,
- underprivileged,
- indigent,
- necessitous,
- unprosperous,
- disadvantaged,
- down to last cent,
- down at heel.
- be-reft,
- most moneyless,
- more totaled,
- most busted,
- more pinched,
- totaled,
- more busted,
- most totaled,
- more moneyless,
- on rocks,
- most divested,
- be reft,
- on breadline,
- most without,
- stripped,
- more without,
- more divested,
- most pinched.
- more outcast,
- most outcast,
- in poorhouse,
- in gutter,
- more vagrant,
- on skids,
- out cast,
- de-relict,
- de relict,
- out funds,
- most vagrant,
- outcast,
- out-cast,
- in red.
- more have not,
- more underdog,
- in one's clutches,
- at feet,
- in one clutches,
- at ones beck call,
- under ones thumb,
- at ones feet,
- most mistreated,
- most underfoot,
- in pocket,
- in clutches,
- over come,
- a slave to,
- at beck call,
- in one pocket,
- at one's beck call,
- at one beck call,
- under one thumb,
- have not,
- underfoot,
- mis treated,
- more tyrannized,
- mis-treated,
- at one mercy,
- most tyrannized,
- Tyrannized,
- under dog,
- at ones beck and call,
- most underdog,
- more suppressed,
- at one beck and call,
- at ones mercy,
- in one's power,
- more subjugated,
- most suppressed,
- in ones pocket,
- most have not,
- most subjugated,
- in ones clutches,
- most have-not,
- havenot,
- in one power,
- under-dog,
- more havenot,
- more mistreated,
- under-foot,
- more have-not,
- helpless,
- led by nose,
- at mercy,
- most persecuted,
- most maltreated,
- more maltreated,
- most havenot,
- in ones power,
- at one feet,
- more persecuted,
- more underfoot.
- at one's feet,
- down to last penny,
- deserving,
- deprived,
- at one's beck and call,
- scurvy,
- impencunious,
- cleaned out,
- dead broke,
- under thumb,
- under foot,
- moneyless,
- under one's thumb,
- on last leg,
- devoid of,
- at one's mercy,
- destitute,
- stone broke,
- in power,
- down-and-out,
- played out,
- in the gutter,
- dirt poor,
- poor,
- impoverished,
- down and out,
- Beggared,
- without a dime,
- out of funds,
- in one's pocket,
- broke,
- penniless,
- in need of,
- flat broke,
- on the rocks,
- buster,
- on the breadline,
- deprived of,
- in great need; financially poor,
- miserably poor,
- impecunious,
- at beck and call,
- led by the nose,
- on the skids,
- downtrodden,
- bad off,
- in the poorhouse,
- Unmoneyed,
- miserable,
- poverty-stricken.
- poorer,
- cash-starved,
- struggling,
- hard-pressed,
- underpaid,
- worse off,
- Fortuneless,
- hand-to-mouth,
- empty-handed,
- behind eight ball,
- cash-strapped,
- dispossessed,
- truly needy,
- underfinanced.
n.
Other synonyms:
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- penurious.
- lean,
- demanding,
- inadequacy,
- empty space,
- scarcity,
- bad,
- bereaved,
- impeccable,
- distressing,
- deficiency,
- mean,
- dearth,
- discontented,
- wanting,
- in dire straits,
- bust,
- ruined,
- in bad straits,
- poverty,
- stony-broke,
- shortcoming,
- short,
- underdeveloped nation,
- embarrassed,
- difficult,
- down-at-the-heel,
- stingy,
- devoid,
- necessary,
- unsophisticated,
- up against it,
- pauper,
- air space,
- badly off,
- insolvent,
- penury,
- mendicant,
- requisite,
- defect,
- needful,
- stony,
- meager,
- under hatches,
- pinched,
- hard up,
- indigence,
- skint,
- oppressed,
- poor person,
- reduced,
- Pauperized,
- slummy,
- financially embarrassed,
- bankrupt,
- insecure,
- scant,
- shabby,
- dead,
- imperfection,
- involved,
- wiped out,
- squalor,
- blemish,
- wretched,
- famished,
- in reduced circumstances,
- ghettoized,
- distressed,
- dirt-poor,
- unfortunate,
- in rags,
- insufficient,
- pauperism,
- starveling,
- distress,
- deprivation,
- Fleeced,
- poor man,
- inadequate,
- hard,
- deficient,
- barren,
- beggar,
- lack,
- straitened,
- in need,
- impoverishment,
- on the dole,
- deficit,
- fortune,
- innocent,
- low,
- bereft,
- absence,
- destitution,
- landless.
Paraphrases for Needy:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
destitute.
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Noun, singular or mass
destitute.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
depressed, desperate, difficult, disenfranchised, distressed, fortunate, helpless, necessary, needed, needs, lower-income, resource-poor.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
dispossessed, impoverished, need, poor, poverty-stricken, vulnerable, poorer, under-privileged, low-income.
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Noun, plural
needs.
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Verb, base form
need.
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Adjective
Homophones for Needy:
- nematode, nonwoody, nominate, neonate, natty, nandu, nod, nematoda, nth, nitwit, nit, nt, newt, nammad, nomad, nuda, node, naiad, nominated, named, ninety, no-hit, nutate, naiant, n-th, nimiety, neat, nonentity, not yet, new-made, need, natta, nada, nitwitted, nude, noontide, 2nd, noted, note, netted, ninetieth, nato, nad, net, nintoo, numididae, non-white, nutty, nut, 42nd, Numidia, numdah, numida, not, 32nd, nett, needed, nd, notate, 22nd, nudity, nitweed, noonday, nintu, ninth, ninety-two, nantua, name day, nitid, not due.
Hyponym for Needy:
n.
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group
poor people, poor.
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group
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