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needer

needer

8.7
A person who wants or must have something they lack
  • noun
  • /ˈniːdər/
translation icon : necesitado
  • The charity aims to support needers in the community by providing food and shelter.

Examples

  • In the classroom, teachers should pay attention to needers who may struggle with the material.

  • I think I am a deep sleep needer.

    Blog text (5)
  • The air is rich with the milk that has dried in her blouse, and across the aisle stands a man who was not there before, thirty years old, with a long dark curly beard; he reminds you of Thomas, the needer of proof.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • She is a needer of assistance and often asks her friends for help.

Antonyms

282 2.9

A company or person that supplies services such as internet and electricity

56 1.0

A person who offers money or help to others without asking for anything back

How Needy

destitute
20 6.5
needer
8.7
comfortable
107 2.9
well-off
33 3.4

Surface Forms

needer singular
needers plural

Morphology

needer = need (transparent) = need + er

Formed by productive agentive suffix '-er' on the verb 'need', yielding 'one who needs'; meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Needer is simply need + -er, meaning 'one who needs'. A need means 'to lack something important', so a needer is someone who wants or must have help or things they do not have.