in need
Lacking essential resources
Lacking something essential—money, food, shelter, or help.
Those in need require assistance: The charity provides meals for families in need.
The phrase often appears in appeals for aid or descriptions of vulnerable populations.
Someone in need of something specifically lacks that thing: The house is in need of repairs.
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- down and outLacking money and hope
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- famineSevere food shortage
on the streets · food insecure · desperate · crying out for · hunger · underprivileged · wanting · poverty · lack · stranded · impecunious · marginalization · insecurity · insufficiency · necessitous · vulnerability · scarcity · impoverished
in needself-sufficient
Able to provide independently
well-off · secure · comfortable · taken care of · stable
in needself-sufficient
Able to provide independently
independent · self-reliant · self-supporting · autonomous · self-sustaining
in needaffluent
Having abundant financial resources
wealthy · prosperous · well-to-do · rich · well-off
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