necessitous
Lacking basic resources
Necessitous means in desperate need, especially of money or basic necessities.
The word is formal and somewhat old-fashioned, appearing in legal and charitable contexts: aid for necessitous families, necessitous circumstances.
It implies poverty severe enough to require outside assistance.
Utterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- pennilessCompletely without money
- penuriousExcessively frugal or poor
pauperized · needy · poor · underprivileged · disadvantaged · dispossessed · homeless · beggarly
Lack of necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
austerity · penury · want · distress · tribulation · affliction · misfortune · difficulty
Requiring immediate attention
- compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
desperate · imperative · exigent · demanding · insistent · clamoring · immediate · crucial
Having too little
- insufficientBelow required quantity
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
- shortOf limited extent
sparse · meager · scarce · limited · devoid · bereft · incomplete · unfulfilled
destitute
Utterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- pennilessCompletely without money
penurious · pauperized · needy · poor · underprivileged · disadvantaged · dispossessed · homeless · beggarly · down-and-out
privation
Lack of necessities
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
struggle · austerity · penury · want · distress · tribulation · affliction · misfortune · difficulty · trials
pressing
Requiring immediate attention
- compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- direExtremely serious or urgent
acute · desperate · imperative · exigent · demanding · insistent · clamoring · immediate · crucial · vital
deficient
Having too little
- insufficientBelow required quantity
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
short · sparse · meager · scarce · limited · devoid · bereft · incomplete · unfulfilled · unprovided
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
necessitouswealthy
Having abundant financial resources
affluent · rich · prosperous · comfortable · well-off
necessitousself-sufficient
Able to provide independently
independent · secure · stable · comfortable · safe
necessitousunnecessary
Not essential or required
needless · unneeded · dispensable · nonessential · inessential
necessary, necessity, unnecessary, necessarily, necessitate, unnecessarily, necessitated, necessitating, necessitates