Needy

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  • adjective. Being in need; impoverished;
  • adjective. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Needful; requisite; necessary.
  • Necessitous; indigent; very poor.
  • Synonyms Needy, Necessitous. Needy seems to apply primarily to the person, but also to the condition; necessitous to the condition and rarely to the person. Needy implies a more permanent state than necessitous; a necessitous condition is more painful and urgent than a needy condition.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
  • adjective. Necessary; requisite.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In need, poor.
  • adjective. Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. needy people collectively
  • adjective. poor enough to need help from others
  • adjective. demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
    • Word Usage
    "What gets me is when a real-life scientist friend says something uninformed, or vacuous, or just plain needy and I desperately want to refer them to the DrugMonkey blog."
    Equivalent
    demanding  poor  
    Form
    neediness  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    poor  poor people  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Edi  Leidy  Midi  beady  beedie  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    desperate  destitute  discontented  enterprising  forlorn  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beggared  beggarly  bereaved  bereft  chronic poverty area  
    variant
    needier  neediest  
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