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Exact Match:

needy

needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree

Synonyms:

• beggared,
• beggarly,
• bereaved,
• bereft,
• chronic poverty area,
• dead,
• depressed population,
• deprived,
• destitute,
• disadvantaged,
• down-and-out,
• flat,
• fleeced,
• ghetto-dwellers,
• ghettoized,
• hard up,
• impecunious,
• impoverished,
• in need,
• in rags,
• in reduced circumstances,
• in want,
• indigent,
• insolvent,
• mendicant,
• necessitous,
• on relief,
• on welfare,
• out at elbows,
• pauperized,
• penniless,
• penurious,
• pinched,
• poor,
• poverty-stricken,
• starveling,
• strapped,
• stripped,
• the disadvantaged,
• the distressed,
• the down-and-out,
• the forgotten man,
• the have-nots,
• the needy,
• the other America,
• the poor,
• the underprivileged,
• the urban poor,
• underdeveloped nation,
• underprivileged,
• unprosperous,
• up against it,
• welfare rolls