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needy

English

  1. 🔊 demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
  2. 🔊 poor enough to need help from others
  3. 🔊 needy people collectively
    “they try to help the needy”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 menesteroso needy, in need
  2. 🔊 necesitado needy, in need (of)

Similar words

destitute impoverished indigent necessitous poverty-stricken 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