neediness
101mendicancy — n beggary, mendicity, pauperism, pau perage; alms begging, Inf. panhandling, scrounging, Inf. bumming; poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, pennilessness, impecuniosity, neediness; Inf. hardupness, Queer Street, skid row; insolvency,… …
102necessity — n 1. requirement, requisite, prerequisite, necessary; makings, what it takes; necessaries, necessities, essentials, bare essentials or necessities; Latin, sine qua non. 2. indispensability, essentiality, needfulness, Archaic. necessitude;… …
103need — n 1. requirement, demand, requisite, prerequisite; obligation, duty, charge; necessity, essential, Latin, sine qua non; necessitude, essentiality, indispensability. 2. want, lack, desideratum; default, dearth, insufficiency, shortness, paucity,… …
104pauperism — n poverty, destitution, penury, indigence, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, pennilessness, neediness, reduced circumstances; beggary, mendicancy, mendicity, pauperage, pauperdom; insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation; distress, difficulties, straits …
105poverty — n 1. indigence, impoverishment, penury, impecuniousness, neediness, necessitousness; privation, destitution, pennilessness, hand to mouth existence; beggary, pauperism, mendicity; distress, difficulties, straits, narrow straits, straitened or… …
106privation — n deprivation, want, need, lack; loss, bereavement, hardship, distress, suffering; difficulty, predicament, plight, strait; seizure, confiscation, forfeiture, divestiture, disinheritance, dispossession; poverty, destitution, beggary, pauperism,… …
107ruin — n 1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack up. 2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest;… …
108want — v 1. desire, wish or wish for, long for, desiderate; yearn for, hope for, care for, pine for, sigh for; hanker after, have a yen for, covet, fancy, have a fancy for; have an eye to, be attracted to, have a mind to, have at heart, be bent upon,… …
109poverty — noun 1) abject poverty Syn: pennilessness, destitution, penury, impoverishment, neediness, hardship, impecuniousness 2) the poverty of choice Syn: scarcity, deficiency, dearth, shor …
110want — [[t]wɒnt, wɔnt[/t]] v. t. 1) to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want a new dress[/ex] 2) to wish or need (often fol. by an infinitive): I want to see you[/ex] 3) to be deficient in: to want judgment[/ex] 4) to require or need: The house …
