Word Meanings - NEEDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; 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 bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Necessary;

Additional info about word: NEEDY

1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; 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 bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Necessary; requiste. Corn to make your needy bread. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NEEDY)

• Indigent
• Poor
• straitened
• needy
• impecunious

Related words: (words related to NEEDY)

• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• STRAITEN
  1. To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine. Waters, when straitened, as at the falls of bridges, give a roaring noise. Bacon. In narrow circuit, straitened by a foe. Milton. 2. To make tense, or tight; to tighten.
• INDIGENT
  stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls
• NEEDY
  1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; 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 bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Necessary;
• INDIGENTLY
  In an indigent manner.