[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

needy \need"y\, a. compar. needier; superl. neediest.
   1. distressed by want of the means of living; very poor;
      indigent; necessitous.
      1913 webster

            thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to
            thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --deut. xv.
                                                  11.
      1913 webster

            spare the blushes of needy merit.     --dr. t.
                                                  dwight.
      1913 webster

   2. necessary; requisite. obs.
      1913 webster

            corn to make your needy bread.        --shak.
      1913 webster neeld
see also:
needier neediest 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

needy
     adj : poor enough to need help from others syn: destitute, impoverished,
            indigent, necessitous, poverty-stricken
     also: neediest, needier
see also:
destitute impoverished indigent necessitous poverty-stricken neediest 
needier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

53 moby thesaurus words for "needy":
   beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poverty area, dead,
   depressed population, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged,
   down-and-out, flat, fleeced, ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, hard up,
   impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags,
   in reduced circumstances, in want, indigent, insolvent, mendicant,
   necessitous, on relief, on welfare, out at elbows, pauperized,
   penniless, penurious, pinched, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling,
   strapped, stripped, the disadvantaged, the distressed,
   the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy,
   the other america, the poor, the underprivileged, the urban poor,
   underdeveloped nation, underprivileged, unprosperous,
   up against it, welfare rolls

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