needy
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈniːdi/
needy (comparative needier, superlative neediest)
- In need; poor.
- Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
- 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes
- Such monitoring has often been a sticking point in the past, amid fears that food aid might be diverted to the Northern elite - or its military - rather than the needy.
- Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
- It's emotionally exhausting to be around her because she's so needy.
- (archaic) Needful; necessary.
- 1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ
- It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]
- 1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ
- (in need) See also Thesaurus:impoverished
- (desiring constant affirmation) confident, self-sufficient
- French: dans le besoin, nécessiteux
- German: bedürftig
- Italian: povero, indigente, bisognoso
- Portuguese: necessitado
- Russian: нужда́ющийся
- Spanish: necesitado, pobre, menesteroso
- Portuguese: carente
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003