necessitous

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(nə-sĕs'ĭ-təs) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Needy; indigent.
  2. Compelling; urgent.

[French nécessiteux, from Old French, necessary, from necessite, necessity. See necessity.]

necessitously ne·ces'si·tous·ly adv.

Roget's Thesaurus:

necessitous

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adjective

    Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. Informal broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See rich/poor.

Translations:

Necessitous

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - nødlidende, fattig

Nederlands (Dutch)
behoeftig, noodlijdend

Français (French)
adj. - nécessiteux

Deutsch (German)
adj. - bedürftig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - φτωχός, πενόμενος, σε ανάγκη

Italiano (Italian)
bisognoso

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - necessitado

Русский (Russian)
нуждающийся, необходимый, срочный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - necesitado, pobre, urgente, apremiante

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - behövande, nödlidande, fattig

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
贫乏的, 紧急的, 穷困的, 必要的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 貧乏的, 緊急的, 窮困的, 必要的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 가난한, 필연적인, 긴급한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 貧乏な, 差し迫った, 緊急の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ضروري, معوز, عاجل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נזקק, נצרך, עני‬


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