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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. needy people collectively;
- Example: "they try to help the needy"


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. poor enough to need help from others;
[syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken]

2. demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Needy \Need"y\, a. [Compar. Needier; superl. Neediest.] 1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous. [1913 Webster] Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --Deut. xv. 11. [1913 Webster] Spare the blushes of needy merit. --Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster] 2. Necessary; requisite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Corn to make your needy bread. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Neeld
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

needy adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken] 2: demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree n 1: needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "needy": 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