necessitous
[adjective]
Synonyms: poor, destitute, dirt poor, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, penurious, poverty-stricken, strapped, essential, imperative, indispensable, necessary, prerequisite

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Related Words: depleted, drained, exhausted

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necessitous adjective. [nɪ'sɛsɪtǝs] E17.
[from French nécessiteux or NECESSITY + -OUS.]
1. In a state of necessity or poverty; having little or nothing to support oneself by; poor, needy. E17.
■ A. Hamilton He exhausts all his Revenues, and is always necessitous.

2. Characterized by necessity or poverty. M17.
■ W. Cowper That I may turn from them that evil hour Necessitous.

3. Necessary, requisite, (for). Long rare or obsolete exc. dial. M18.

■ necessitously adverb M17.

■ necessitousness noun L17.

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