Needy - English meaning

adjective

Suffering a severe and damaging lack of basic material and cultural benefits.

Usage examples:

The charity cares for destitute and deprived children

verb

Prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.

Usage examples:

The city was deprived of its water supplies

adjective

Lacking something that is needed to live the way most people live

Usage examples:

He took pictures in deprived areas of the city.

noun

A substance, such as mud or dust, that soils someone or something.

Usage examples:

Jo wiped the dirt off her face

noun

Earth or a substance like it that has gotten on the surface of something such as your skin

Usage examples:

I sat on the ground and got dirt on my pants., after the rain, the woods smelled of wet dirt and gr…

adjective

(of a person or area) in unfavourable circumstances, especially with regard to financial or social opportunities.

Usage examples:

Disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed

verb

Put in an unfavourable position in relation to someone or something else.

Usage examples:

The pension scheme tends to disadvantage women

adjective

(of a person or area) made poor.

Usage examples:

Impoverished villages

verb

Make (a person or area) poor.

Usage examples:

The wars had impoverished him

adjective

Extremely poor

Usage examples:

An impoverished family

adjective

Poor; needy.

Usage examples:

A charity for the relief of indigent artists

noun

A needy person.

Usage examples:

Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusad…

adjective

Having no money or anything else of value

Usage examples:

An indigent family

adjective

Necessary; requisite.

Usage examples:

A further word was needful

noun

What is necessary.

Usage examples:

I call upon the authorities to do the needful

adjective

Necessary

Usage examples:

We must not put them in more danger than is needful., they are needful of affection., notify your b…

adjective

Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.

Usage examples:

They were too poor to afford a telephone

adjective

Extremely poor

Usage examples:

My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

adjective

(of a person) not enjoying the same standard of living or rights as the majority of people in a society.

Usage examples:

Needy and underprivileged members of the community

adjective

Lacking the money and the basic social advantages that most people have; poor

Usage examples:

A summer camp for underprivileged children