necessitous
- adjective
- /nəˈsɛsɪtəs/
- Literature
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necesitado
- Many necessitous families struggle to afford basic food and shelter.
Examples
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The charity focuses on helping necessitous individuals find stable housing.
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"Above all, I had no access to his deep and persistent sense of being a Northerner (the North being for Donald "the region of the stripped and the straitened, the necessitous") and a Northerner from a country whose center of gravity is notably low.
Academic text (1997) -
People suffering disappointed desires are therefore necessitous people, and according to Franklin Roosevelt, necessitous people are not free.
Academic text (1996) -
People suffering disappointed desires are therefore necessitous people, and according to Franklin Roosevelt, necessitous people are not free.
Academic text (1996) -
First and foremost, to paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, it would recognize that necessitous men and women are not free men and women and work harder to ensure everyone has the basic economic liberty to choose their own path through life.
Blog text (8) -
For example, in Virginia, which I believe is your state, Title 20, Sec. 88 of the Virginia Code provides: "It shall be the joint and several duty of all persons eighteen years of age or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, after reasonably providing for his or her own immediate family, to assist in providing for the support and maintenance of his or her mother or father, he or she being then and there in necessitous circumstances."
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During the winter, necessitous people often rely on food banks for survival.
Synonyms
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1.0
Needing pity because they are hurt, sad, or unlucky
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6.2
People or places that have very little money and few things they need
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1.5
Without enough food, clothes, or a home and often gets help from others
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4.3
Having no money
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8.7
Very poor and without enough money for basic needs
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3.9
Not having basic things like enough food, a safe home, or clean water
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6.5
Very poor and without basic things like food or a home
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5.1
Very poor and needing help to live
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6.8
To live with only enough money to pay for basic needs and no savings
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9.9
Having little or no money
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9.9
Very poor and unable to pay for basic needs
A person who has little money and cannot buy basic things
Having very few natural things like water or minerals
Very poor and living with almost no money
Having almost no money or things
Antonyms
How Poor
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Necessitous comes from the same root as necessity and necessary, from a Latin word meaning 'need'. So a necessitous person is someone in 'need' who lacks basic things like food or money.