needy
Lacking basic resources
Needy describes someone who lacks basic necessities—food, shelter, money: programs for the needy.
More commonly now, needy describes emotional neediness—someone who requires excessive reassurance, attention, or validation: He got needy after we'd been dating a few months.
The emotional sense carries mild judgment, suggesting the person's demands are burdensome.
Severe lack of resources
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- privationLack of necessities
deprivation · underprivileged · disadvantaged · destitute · homeless · hungry · struggling · poor
Connection or fondness
- insecureLacking self-assurance
- anxiousTroubled by uncertainty
- possessiveOverly attached, often toxically
- demandingRequiring great effort
codependent · jealous · smothering · overbearing · obsessive · enmeshed · suffocating · grasping
Unable to act independently
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
- at-riskSubject to potential harm
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
weak · exposed · susceptible · dependent · frail · abandoned · neglected · orphaned
Intense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- desiringStrongly wanting something
- achingExperiencing dull pain
hungry for · seeking · thirsting · lacking · unfulfilled · unsatisfied · empty · incomplete
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
privation · deprivation · underprivileged · disadvantaged · destitute · homeless · hungry · struggling · poor · welfare
attachment
Connection or fondness
- insecureLacking self-assurance
- anxiousTroubled by uncertainty
- possessiveOverly attached, often toxically
demanding · codependent · jealous · smothering · overbearing · obsessive · enmeshed · suffocating · grasping · high-maintenance
helpless
Unable to act independently
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
- at-riskSubject to potential harm
unprotected · weak · exposed · susceptible · dependent · frail · abandoned · neglected · orphaned · elderly
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
hungry for · aching · seeking · thirsting · lacking · unfulfilled · unsatisfied · empty · incomplete · deficient
- slang traitsbossy, brainy, bubbly, chatty, cheeky
- gender stereotypesboys will be boys, pink for girls, blue for boys, man up, strong men
- romantic typeshopeless romantic, romantic, lover, flirt, heartbreaker
- underclasspoor, pauper, peasant, homeless, serf
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
needywealthy
Having abundant financial resources
affluent · rich · prosperous · well-off · well-to-do
needysecure
Protected from harm
confident · self-assured · independent · self-reliant · undemanding
needyself-sufficient
Able to provide independently
independent · self-reliant · autonomous · self-supporting · self-sustaining
- need toAre required to
- I needExpressing necessity or desire
- in needLacking necessary resources
- as neededWhen necessity arises
- I need your helpAppeal for assistance
- needless to sayPhrase preceding evident statements
need, needed, needs, needing, needless, unneeded, neediness, needlessly, needful