NEEDY Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

needy

adjective

ˈnē-dē

as in impoverished

lacking money or material possessions those generous souls who regularly give money and donate clothes to help the needy

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Recent Examples of needy Over the course of the season, Chantal grows frustrated with her needy fiancé and begins falling for Jordie, who has harbored feelings for Delilah for years, but seemingly moves on and reciprocates Chantal’s affections. —

Arushi Jacob, Variety, 11 June 2026 Your mom friend is overly needy. —

Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 6 June 2026 Separately, the administration swiped $35 million allocated to needy children and drug prevention to pay for efforts to kill that amendment and another legalizing marijuana. —

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026 This year, owing to a mixup in the congressional budget, one of the government’s most important scholarships was left severely underfunded, depriving thousands of Peru’s neediest high-school graduates of the opportunity to continue their studies at local universities. —

Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for needy

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Among the Cambodians to exploit the instability was Toek Tik, a once-impoverished former Khmer Rouge foot soldier whose confessions helped investigators substantiate some of their claims against Latchford.

— Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
And the people who got trapped behind—and who are now the impoverished mass of the remaining Cuban population—are the descendants of the slave population, or those who intermarried with the slave population.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026