neediness

  • 81impecuniousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH …

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  • 82impoverishment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH. 2. The depletion or… …

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  • 83pennilessness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH …

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  • 84penuriousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penury, poverty, privation, want. See RICH …

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  • 85Poverty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Poverty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 poverty poverty indigence penury pauperism destitution want Sgm: N 1 need need neediness Sgm: N 1 lack lack necessity privation …

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  • 86needy — (adj.) late 12c., neodi poor, indigent, from NEED (Cf. need) (n.) + adjectival suffix Y (Cf. y) (2). Cf. Du. noodig, Ger. nothig, O.N. nauðigr. As a noun from mid 14c. Related: Needily; neediness …

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  • 87needy — adjective (needier, neediest) 1》 lacking the necessities of life; very poor. 2》 needing emotional support; insecure. Derivatives neediness noun …

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  • 88poverty — n. 1. Indigence, penury, want, destitution, need, necessity, privation, neediness, distress, straitened circumstances. 2. Beggary, mendicancy, pauperism. 3. Need, lack, want, deficiency, scantiness, sparingness, meagreness, jejuneness. 4. Paucity …

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  • 89need — I. n. 1. Necessity, want, exigency, urgency, emergency, strait, extremity. 2. Indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, distress, neediness, privation. II. v. a. Want, require, lack, be in want of, stand in want of …

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  • 90needy — adjective 1 having very little food or money: a needy family 2 the needy needy people: money to help the needy neediness noun (U) …

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