poverty-stricken

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not having much or enough money
poorHer family was poor and didn't own a computer.
pennilessAt the time, I was a penniless student.
impoverishedBenefits should be targeted at the most impoverished families.
disadvantagedThe scheme was set up to help disadvantaged children.
deprivedDeprived areas will be hardest hit by the cuts.
wanting too much attention and love: 需要过多关怀的
Sybil was very insecure and needy.西比尔很没有安全感，很需要别人的关怀。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lacking things
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be hard up (for something)idiom
bereft
chronic disease
hour
if it wasn't/weren't forphrase
in someone's hour of needidiom
inappeasable
lack
minus
scrape
scream
scream (out) for somethingidiom
shortage
shy
skimpily
starve someone/something of something
starved
taken

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Feelings - general words
needy
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈniː.di/ us /ˈniː.di/
 the needy
poor people: 穷人
Let us pray for those who are not so fortunate as ourselves - the sick, the old, and the needy.让我们为那些比我们不幸的病弱者、老人和穷人祈祷吧。

needy | American Dictionary

needy
adjective
us/ˈnid·i/
very poor:
There are many needy people in our area.

Examples of needy

needy
The neediest refugees were also entitled to medicine and free medical care.
Local officials combed the countryside to inscribe the neediest on the departmental pension rolls.
Also, discarding the clients with fewer needs makes only a very small saving that can be redistributed to other, needier, clients.
Moreover, such a child is likely to be more emotionally vulnerable and needier than an average child, and therefore puts very high demands on caregivers.
A human rights approach focuses on the neediest population, at a global scale, in order to respond efficiently to the most challenging development problems.
If the older person's life will have been going badly enough to be worse overall than the younger person's life, then she is needier than the younger person.
He also provided a great deal of material assistance to the poor and needy.
The actual number of the supported needy may thus perhaps be doubled.
Especially in urban environments, the poorest families usually lacked the necessary material resources to take in needy relatives.
The ethical priority for this process is to determine who is the most needy.
The same was true, if to a lesser extent, of needy elderly people who had children but lacked a partner.
The most assertively discontented and mobilized regions received larger benefits than their more docile - though arguably more 'needy' or 'deserving' - neighbours.
Alongside humanitarian work for the most needy, the organisation also runs projects directed towards socially more stable and well-established groups.
Means-tested benefits are targeted to a limited clientele of the needy, and social insurance schemes provide modest benefits.
The reasoning was that, although most families that sought welfare were needy enough to qualify, few had exhausted other possibilities for income.
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