ADJECTIVE needy COMPARATIVE needier SUPERLATIVE neediest

needy English

Meaning needy meaning

What does needy mean?

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— noun needy people collectively they try to help the needy

— adjective demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

— adjective (= destitute) poor enough to need help from others

Synonyms needy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as needy?

needy English » English

poor

indigent

necessitous

destitute

impoverished

penniless

poverty-stricken

in need

miserable

pauper

impecunious

destitude

broke

wanting

void

very poor

vacant

unsafe

straitened

sterile

scanty

run out of

resourceless

poor person

poor people

orphaned

not wealthy

needful

landless

insolvent

insecure

inadequate

hollow

helpless

empty

deprived

dependent

deficient

broken

beggars

beggar

barren

bare

bankrupt

Topics needy topics

What do people use needy to talk about?

Work and occupation Finance Have wealth

Poor

• What words describe someone who is poor?
  poor (person, man) destitute (person) needy bankrupt broke needy underprivileged impoverished

States Quantity Enough

Need

• What words describe someone who needs something?
  needy dependent

Examples needy examples

How do I use needy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The city supplied the needy with blankets.

Tom is needy.

I'm needy.

The socially needy receive an additional allowance.

We should help the needy.

Movie subtitles

I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy, and then I'm going to make a picture about it.

There wad I, weak and needy.

Looking after the poor and needy.

Some for travel expenses, for the needy, for weapons.

When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten.

I can see Ferguson donating it to a fund for needy Scotchmen.

After-hours booze for the lushes, grass for the potheads and girls for the needy.

It's our annual collection for needy girls.

This department has always been very helpful to needy girls.

I was like him, graceful and needy.

In addition, He is famous for his charity to poor and needy village churches.

Joy comes well in such a needy time.

You're a Good Samaritan to offer help to a needy traveler.

We always have the needy with us, but unfortunately.

Oh, yes. Yes, you are. At Christmas, I always feed the needy.

You don't have to be needy.

A refuge for the needy.

Tweedy, Tweedy, of thee I am needy.

The mission, should you decide to accept it, is to recover the millions which Hagar and his wife have stolen from the needy and put a stop to their charity racket for good.

If you want a place to entertain girls, I'd rather take 2,000 and give it to someone more needy.

Is it still your needy my friend, to test yourself against me?

He left a poor needy girl who must be a charwoman. slaving to raise his child.

And God knows how needy my pocket is!

I'll sing in charity concerts to aid the needy children.

Are you not St Christopher, protector of the needy?

She gives dance classes but she isn't needy.

God helps the needy.

My father worked himself into an early grave defending the rights of needy people in his store front over on 9th Street.

I beg your pardons, and please accept my pledge to the needy for.

We've brought you needy old folks here to see that one's prosperity is deeply within his inner self.

News and current affairs

Of course, there were abuses, such as the allocation of public credits to richer farmers rather than to needy ones, or the prolonged subsidization of inputs even after farmers became creditworthy.

But it should have been disbursed directly in cash to the most needy Russians: pensioners whose earnings plummeted due to inflation and economic contraction.

The progressive social experiment has gone so severely off-track that the state cannot even dependably provide essential services, from courts to education, for the most needy.

We are appealing to donors not just to create thousands of school places for desperately needy children, but also to establish a precedent for the 20 million other children driven by violent conflict into displaced-persons camps and shantytowns.

Few programs are targeted carefully enough to real needs - or to the really needy - as politicians buy votes by spreading coverage far beyond what is needed to achieve programs' stated goals.

There were so many generous subsidies, grants, and transfer payments - aimed at everyone from the truly needy to artists unable to sell their work - that after-tax wages were often barely higher than benefits.

Social spending should be targeted at the needy.

As soon as possible, I will dispatch an OSIFE needs-assessment team to Greece to contact the authorities - and the people and organizations already helping the needy - to work out a plan for which we can generate public support.

They suggested only some vague notions of state intervention on behalf of the poor and needy.

It must be distributed to the needy rather than favoring the elite - a tendency established in the past.

The global economic crisis has aggravated this ambiguity, while also markedly reducing the flow of resources that these needy countries receive.

Can multinational companies bring similar benefits to other needy regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where a legacy of colonialism, apartheid, and economic mismanagement create a fundamentally different business environment?

But European welfare states are better equipped to deal with asylum-seekers and other newcomers as needy dependents than as people in need of a job.

Desperate for economic growth, two needy countries entered into a marriage of convenience.

The second is to increase voters' spending power through populist subsidies and transfers, which typically tend to be directed toward the politically influential rather than the truly needy.