Necessitous [adjective]
Definition of Necessitous:
poor
Synonyms of Necessitous:
● Bad off
● Bankrupt
● Beggarly
● Broke
● Flat
● Hard up
● Indigent
● Low
● Meager
● Needy
● Reduced
● Scanty
● Strapped
● Beggared
● In need
● In want
● Pinched
Opposite/Antonyms of Necessitous:
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Sentence/Example of Necessitous:
I then made her understand how money was the thing that was the least necessary to the necessitous.
That is true,” said I; “I have always said so, but you are not necessitous, and should not drab baulor.
So Washington in 1778 thought that "Marshall is not a necessitous man."
Therefore to you alone do we see all necessitous Muses have recourse.
He became intemperate; and his intemperance made her necessitous.
Moreover, necessitous though I am, it goes against my pride to owe everything to my wife.
Mr. Renaud renewed his proposal for a treat to the necessitous poor in the neighbourhood.
They were all men of bad habits, and urgently necessitous, but yet of decent education and family.
I should be loath to try such an experiment or deprive you of your child—but necessitous non habet legem, the school-book says.
Alleviate the toil of the necessitous, but do not prevent their useful employment of time and means.