All necessitous synonyms
ne·ces·si·tous
N n adj necessitous
- bad off — If you are bad off, you are in a bad situation.
- bankrupt — People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- beggarly — meanly inadequate; very poor
- broke — Broke is the past tense of break.
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- down-and-out — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- hard up — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- impecunious — having little or no money; penniless; poor.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- indigent — lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
- insolvent — not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- low — to utter by or as by lowing.
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- needy — in a condition of need or want; poverty-stricken; impoverished; extremely poor; destitute.
- penniless — without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- reduced — that is or has been reduced.
- scanty — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- suffering — the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- beggared — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- dirt poor — lacking nearly all material means or resources for living.
- flat broke — having no money
- fortune — position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune.
- moneyless — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- pinched — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- stone broke — having no money whatsoever.
- unprosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.
- on one's uppers — higher, as in place, position, pitch, or in a scale: the upper stories of a house; the upper register of a singer's voice.
adjective necessitous
- poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- fortuneless — Unlucky, unfortunate.