Related Words for needy

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WordSyllablesCategories
impoverished
x/x
Adjective, Adjective
indigent
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
poor
/
Noun, Adjective
destitute
/xx
Adjective, Adjective, Noun
underprivileged
/x/x
Noun
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
homeless
/x
Noun
hungry
/x
Adjective
helpless
/x
Adjective
downtrodden
x/x
Noun
undeserving
xx/x
Adjective
undernourished
xx/x
Adjective
desperately
/xxx
Adverb
sick
/
Adjective
oppressed
x/
Adjective
charitable
/xxx
Adjective
ungrateful
x/x
Adjective
vulnerable
/xxx
Adjective
famished
/x
Adjective
unfortunates
x/xx
Noun
starving
/x
Verb
afflicted
x/x
Verb
wealthy
/x
Adjective
underserved
xx/
Adjective
orphans
/x
Noun
anxious
/x
Adjective
greedy
/x
Adjective
friendless
/x
Adjective
selfish
/x
Adjective
lonely
/x
Adjective
troubled
/x
Adjective
malnourished
x/x
Adjective
clingy
/x
Adjective
fatherless
/xx
Noun
elderly
/xx
Adjective
irritable
/xxx
Adjective
sickly
/x
Adjective
weak
/
Adjective
affluent
/xx
Adjective
forlorn
x/
Adjective
marginalized
/xxx
Verb
resentful
x/x
Adjective
pitifully
/xxx
Adverb
whiny
/x
Adjective
cranky
/x
Adjective
hopeless
/x
Adjective
disenfranchised
xx/x
Adjective
pious
/x
Adjective
caring
/x
Verb
feeble
/x
Adjective
spoiled
/
Adjective
eager
/x
Adjective
thin
/
Adjective
deprived
x/
Verb
woeful
/x
Adjective
hard up
//
Phrase, Adjective, Verb
wanting
/x
Verb
wretched
/x
Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective
short
/
Adjective
broken
/x
Adjective
stingy
/x
Adjective
penniless
/xx
Adjective
frail
/
Adjective
infirm
x/
Noun
meager
/x
Adjective
poorly
/x
Adverb
inept
x/
Adjective
tight
/
Adjective
bankrupt
/x
Adjective
meagre
/x
Adjective
scarce
/
Adjective
scanty
/x
Adjective
silly
/x
Adjective
mean
/
Noun
insufficient
xx/x
Adjective
ailing
/x
Adjective
rare
/
Adjective
unworthy
x/x
Adjective
sorry
/x
Adjective
shabby
/x
Adjective
badly off
/x/
Phrase, Adjective
cramped
/
Adjective
unequal
x/x
Adjective
tender
/x
Noun
delicate
/xx
Adjective
dispossessed
xx/
Verb
cheap
/
Adjective
seedy
/x
Adjective
painful
/x
Adjective
small
/
Adjective
depressed
x/
Adjective
spare
/
Adjective
bad off
//
Phrase, Adjective
inadequate
x/xx
Adjective
bereft
x/
Noun
neglected
x/x
Verb
supplicant
/xx
Noun
succour
//
Verb
distributing
x/xx
Verb
elsewhere
/x
Adverb
dispensing
x/x
Verb
thy
/
Verb
lifts
/
Verb
trample
/x
Verb
donate
/x
Verb
aiding
/x
Verb
sighing
/x
Noun
ministering
/xx
Verb
assisting
x/x
Verb
crush
/
Verb
suppliant
x/x
Noun
wayfarer
/xx
Noun
blind
/
Noun
helping
/x
Verb
delivers
x/x
Verb
target
/x
Verb
relieving
x/x
Verb
providing
x/x
Verb
widows
/x
Noun
petitioner
x/xx
Noun
clothe
/
Verb
adventurer
x/xx
Noun
redistribute
xx/x
Verb
dependants
x/x
Noun
bestow
x/
Verb
house
/
Verb
agriculturists
xx/xx
Noun
dependents
x/x
Noun
advantaged
x/x
Adjective
alms
/
Noun
arabs
/x
Noun
boring
/x
Adjective, Noun
bourgeois
x/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
child
/
Noun, Verb
deaf
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
demanding
x/x
Adjective
deserving
x/x
Noun, Adjective
difficult
/xx
Adjective, Verb
difficulty
/xxx
Noun
distress
x/
Noun, Verb
evacuees
x/xx
Noun
faithful
/x
Adjective, Noun
folks
/
Noun
fortunate
/xx
Adjective
freedmen
/x
Adjective
handicapped
/xx
Adjective, Noun
hardship
/x
Noun, Verb
hippies
/x
Verb
hoodlums
/x
Noun
hooked
/
Adjective
horny
/x
Adjective
insecure
/xx
Adjective
lunatics
/xx
Noun
medically
/xx
Adverb
men
/
Noun
necessary
/xxx
Adjective, Noun
need
/
Verb, Noun
older
/x
Adjective, Noun
paupers
/x
Noun
people
/x
Noun, Verb
person
/x
Noun, Verb
poverty
/xx
Noun
powerless
/xx
Adjective
precarious
x/xx
Adjective
required
x/x
Adjective
reside
x/
Verb, Noun
rich
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
speaking
/x
Adjective, Noun
strapped
/
Adjective
shirtless
/x
Adjective
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
die
/
Verb, Noun
anymore
xx/
Adverb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
sorta
/x
Adverb