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in need
adjective as in deprived
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adjective as in necessitous
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- bad off
- bankrupt
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind the eight ball
- broke
- destitute
- dirt poor
- down-and-out
- empty-handed
- flat
- flat broke
- fortuneless
- hard up
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in want
- indigent
- insolvent
- low
- meager
- moneyless
- needy
- on one's uppers
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- poverty-stricken
- reduced
- scanty
- stone broke
- strapped
- suffering
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unprosperous
adjective as in poor
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adjective as in underprivileged
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Example Sentences
When she resumed her quiet gray, she was again the same winsome, pathetic, in-need-of-protection little thing as before.
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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to in need, such as: craving, imploring, and anxious.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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