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necessitous
adjective as in poor
Weak matches
- 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 need
- 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
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Example Sentences
The reasons for its adoption were, and are, still obviously wise, although not necessitous.
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Alleviate the toil of the necessitous, but do not prevent their useful employment of time and means.
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This venerable woman was prompt and undelaying in the relief she afforded to the necessitous.
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He chose a night when a steady, blowing rain had driven all but limousined and most necessitous traffic from the streets.
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Yet the cost of so formidable a journey would be far beyond this necessitous one's means.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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