Needy

Adjective

 * 1) In need, poor.
 * Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Derived terms

 * neediness

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

Etymology
From nedy:, equivalent to. Compare nodig:,  nötig:,  nödig:.

Translations

 * French: dans le besoin,, nécessiteuse
 * German:


 * Scottish Gaelic: uireasbhach
 * Turkish: muhtaç, ,