Needy

Definition: Needy

Needy

Adjective

1. Poor enough to need help from others.

Date "needy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Needy \Need"y\, adjective. [Comparative Needer; superlative Neediest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Needy

Synonyms: destitute (adj), impoverished (adj), indigent (adj), necessitous (adj), poverty-stricken (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poverty	In want; Noun: needy, necessitous, distressed, pinched, straitened; put to one's shifts, put to one's last shifts; unable to keep the wolf from the door, unable to make both ends meet; embarrassed, under hatches; involved; (in debt); insolvent; (not paying).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Right, let's sort the buyers from the spyers; the needy from the greedy; and those who trust me from the ones who don't. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) If needy were a turn on? (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.) A little needy. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) You'll end up hating him in three weeks because, I don't know, he has a weird chest hair pattern, or he doesn't like watching E!. Or he'll end up hating you because you're too needy. Then you'll fall apart, I'll pick you up, and then magically, you'll be ready to have a baby! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it. (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges)
Clever	Chef Throws His Heart into Helping Feed Needy (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Cookbook for the needy greedy (reference) Effective workers in needy fields [microform] (reference) Hands to the needy; Mother d'Youville, apostle to the poor (reference) Into Africa: A True Story of God's Faithfulness in a Dry and Needy Land (reference) Needy and Greedy (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Publilius Syrus	He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
	One ungrateful person, does an injury to all needy people.
Seneca	I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy.
St. Jerome	Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
The Koran	Woe be unto those who pray, and who are negligent at their prayer: who play the hypocrites, and deny necessaries to the needy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	I have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred to one: for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniencies of life, as ten acres of equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated? Before the appropriation of land, he who gathered as much of the wild fruit, killed, caught, or tamed, as many of the beasts, as he could; he that so imployed his pains about any of the spontaneous products of nature, as any way to alter them from the state which nature put them in, by placing any of his labour on them, did thereby acquire a propriety in them: but if they perished, in his possession, without their due use; if the fruits rotted, or the venison putrified, before he could spend it, he offended against the common law of nature, and was liable to be punished; he invaded his neighbour's share, for he had no right, farther than his use called for any of them, and they might serve to afford him conveniencies of life. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He threw into the fire a package of notes which he held against needy small traders.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Togo	Orphans and other needy children receive some aid from extended families or private organizations but less from the State. (references)
	Maldives	When family care is unavailable, persons with disabilities are kept in the Institute for Needy People, which also assists elderly persons. (references)
	Spain	The Ministries of Health and Social Affairs are responsible for the welfare of children and have created numerous programs to aid needy children. (references)
Civil Liberties	India	However, the UNHCR continued to assist extremely needy refugees including women and children. (references)
	Cuba	In 1996 the Government agreed to allow 1,000 needy refugees to leave each year with reduced exit fees. (references)
	Nigeria	They were accused of not showing full support for a compulsory closing of businesses, schools, and hospitals during Friday prayers and an enforced zakkat (alms) payment to assist the needy. (references)
Economic History	Armenia	From time to time, the government conducts rationed sales of basic foods and other consumables (sugar, powdered milk, matches, soap) to the most needy groups at prices much lower than market prices. (references)
	Armenia	Nevertheless, humanitarian programs, which make up approximately 15% of total assistance in fiscal year 2001, still provide an important source of food, medical supplies, and other necessary items to needy Armenians. (references)
Human Rights	Sri Lanka	The Government continued to provide food relief, through the Commissioner General for Essential Services (CGES) and the Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies (MCPS), to displaced and other needy citizens, including those in areas controlled by the LTTE. (references)
Political Economy	ECUADOR	Other structural reform measures focus on the need to reduce fuel subsidies and better target poverty assistance to the most needy. (references)
	Sudan	There are reliable reports that Islamic NGO's in war zones withhold food and other services from the needy unless they convert to Islam. (references)
Women	Kyrgyz Republic	The Center for Women's Initiative, Aigerim, introduced programs to assist with needy families. (references)
Worker Rights	India	They help needy families with money (as an advance in salary), taking the victims as surety. (references)
	Cameroon	In the north of the country, there were credible reports that children from needy homes were placed with other families to do household work for money. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given. Who is that, father? A mendicant, child, Haggard, morose, and unaffable -- wild! See how he glares through the bars of his cell! With Citizen Mendicant all is not well. Why did they put him there, father? Because Obeying his belly he struck at the laws. His belly? Oh, well, he was starving, my boy -- A state in which, doubtless, there's little of joy. No bite had he eaten for days, and his cry Was "Bread!" ever "Bread!" What's the matter with pie? With little to wear, he had nothing to sell; To beg was unlawful -- improper as well. Why didn't he work? He would even have done that, But men said: "Get out!" and the State remarked: "Scat!" I mention these incidents merely to show That the vengeance he took was uncommonly low. Revenge, at the best, is the act of a Siou, But for trifles -- Pray what did bad Mendicant do? Stole two loaves of bread to replenish his lack And tuck out the belly that clung to his back. Is that all father dear? There's little to tell: They sent him to jail, and they'll send him to -- well, The company's better than here we can boast, And there's -- Bread for the needy, dear father? Um -- toast. Atka Mip
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	We must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp program.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Worse, we are wasting badly needed resources without reaching many of the truly needy.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Our goal through federal assistance should be to maintain and enhance adequate rail service, where it is not otherwise available to needy communities.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	But don't be fooled by those who proclaim that spending cuts will deprive the elderly, the needy, and the helpless.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Needy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Needy" is used about 249 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.2%	247	18,964
Noun (proper)	0.8%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	249	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "needy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Needy	Last name	100	80,618
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "needy": needy child ♦ needy person. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "needy": needy-contingent.
	Ending with "needy": then-needy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "needy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		berooid (miserable), behoeftig (miserable). (various references)

Albanian		nevojtar (necessitous, poor). (various references)

Arabic		‏فقير (destitute, fakir, indigent, low-income, moneyless, necessitous, ownerless, pauper, penurious, poor, poor mouth, poverty stricken), ‏محتاج (in need, indigent, necessitous, pauper, poor), ‏معوز (destitute, down and out, indigent, infelicitous, insolvent, lack, necessitous, pauper, poor, poverty stricken, starveling), ‏معدم (destitute, impecunious, penniless, starveling). (various references)

Bulgarian		в нужда, бедствуващ (destitute), беден (fortuneless, humble, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jejune, meager, meagre, mean, moneyless, necessitous, needful, penniless, penurious, pokey, poky, poor, poorly off, poverty stricken, scanty, shabby, tenuous, thin). (various references)

Chinese		贫穷 (impecunious, Poverty). (various references)

Czech		nuzný (badly off, destitute, hand to mouth, indigent, meagre, penurious, sordid), potřebný (desirable, necessary, needful, perquisite, required, requisite, wanting), chudý (disadvantaged, impecunious, lean, poor, scanty, thin, underprivileged). (various references)

Danish		uformuende. (various references)

Dutch		nooddruftig (miserable), berooid (miserable), behoeftig (miserable). (various references)

Esperanto		senhava (miserable). (various references)

Farsi		نیازمند (Destitute, Needful). (various references)

Finnish		tarvitsevainen, puutteenalainen (destitute), köyhä (flabby, indigent, lean, poor), hädänalainen (destitute, distressed), avuntarvitsija (needing help), avuntarve (needing help). (various references)

French		indigent. (various references)

German		bedürftig (indigent, indigently, needily), notleidend (destitute, dishonored, dishonoured), hilfsbedürftig. (various references)

Greek		ενδεήσ (necessitous, needful), άποροσ (destitute, impecunious, indigent, pauper, resourceless), άπορος (destitute, indigent, poor person). (various references)

Hebrew		אביון (beggar, destitute, miserable, pauper, poor person, wretched), � זקק (in need), � צרך (destitute, indigent). (various references)

Hungarian		rászoruló (indigent, poor). (various references)

Indonesian		miskin (beggarly, destitute, indigent, poor). (various references)

Irish		airceach. (various references)

Italian		indigente (destitute, indigent, pauper, poor person), bisognoso (destitute, necessitous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		貧しい (poor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まずしい (poor). (various references)

Manx		femoil (beggarly, destitute, essential, necessary, requisite), eginagh (compelling, compulsive; rapist, compulsory, obligatory), anverchagh (impecunious, poor person). (various references)

Pig Latin		eedynay.(various references)

Portuguese		necessitado (lacking, necessitous, pauper, poor, pow), necessariamente (necessarily, perforce), sem recursos económicos, indigente (beggarly, destitute, indigent, necessitous, pauper, poor, poor person, poverty stricken). (various references)

Romanian		nevoiaş (destitute, indigent, low-lived, out at elbows, penniless, wretched), sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void). (various references)

Russian		нуждающийся (hard up, impecunious, in need, indigent, necessitous, penniless). (various references)

Scottish		feumach (a needy person). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nikakav (no, none, pelting, poor, trashy), siromašan (destitute, have not, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, pauper, poor, underprivileged), oskudan (barren, deficient, destitute, exiguous, meager, meagre, necessitous, penurious, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, stringent, tight), bedan (abject, beggarly, crummy, distressful, lamentable, mangy, miserable, pelting, pitiable, poor, rubbishy, squalid, wretched). (various references)

Spanish		necesitado (abject, dismal, in need, meager, miserable, necessitous, poor, taken, underprivileged, wretched), indigente (destitute, indigent, miserable, necessitous, poor, poor person), pobre (abject, beggar, destitute, dismal, hungry, impecunious, indigent, jimp, meager, meagre, mingy, miserable, miserly, pathetic, pathetical, pauper, penurious, poor, scrappy, wretched), menesteroso (abject, dismal, meager, miserable, poverty stricken, underprivileged, wretched). (various references)

Swedish		torftig (austere, barren, insubstantial, jejune, meagre, penurious, poor, scanty, skimpy, threadbare), nödlidande (distressed, necessitous, value impaired), behövande (miserable, necessitous, poor). (various references)

Thai		ขั�"สน. (various references)

Turkish		yoksul (hand to mouth, in need, indigent, pauper, penurious, poor, poor person, poverty stricken), muhtaç (beggarly, dependent, destitute, hard up, have a weak chest, in need, indigent, necessitous, straitened, straitened for), fakir (destitute, distressed, fakir, impecunious, indigent, necessitous, pauper, penniless, penurious, poor, poor person, ropy, small). (various references)

Turkmen		mдtдз. (various references)

Ukranian		що живе у нужді, нічліжник, нужденний (destitute, helpless, indigent, miserable, necessitous, needful, penniless, poor, poverty stricken, poverty-struck), злигодній (distressed, necessitous, needful), злидарський (ragamuffin), жебрак (abraham-man, beggar, cadger, canter, eleemosynary, lazarus, mendicant, panhandler, scrounger), бідний (bare, barren, destitute, fortuneless, lean, necessitous, needful, one horse, pauper, penurious, poor, scrannel, shabby, tenuous, underprivileged), бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, gadabout, hobo, loafer, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tourist, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, waif). (various references)

Vietnamese		nghèo túng (destitute, necessitous). (various references)

Welsh		rheidus (necessitous), anghenus (indigent, necessitous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	egens, egentem, egentes, egenti, egentis, egentium, indigens, indigenti, indigentiam, indigentis, indiges, inope, inopem, inopes, inopi, inopia, inopis, inops, inopum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Anoige son stoma kai krine dikaiwV diakrine de penhta kai asqenh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Aperi os tuum decerne quod iustum est et iudica inopem et pauperem
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Opene thou thi mouth. Deme that is riytwis, and venge the helpeles and the pore.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 9
Bulgarian	Отваряй устата си, съди справедливо. И раздавай правосъдие на сиромаха и немотния.
Cebuano	Bukha ang imong baba, maghukom ka sa pagkamatarung, Ug maghatag ka ug justicia sa mga kabus ug hangul.
Chinese	� 當開口按公義判斷、為困苦 �'� 窮乏的辨屈。
Croatian	Otvaraj usta svoja, sudi pravedno i pribavi pravo siromahu i nevoljniku.
Danish	luk Munden op og døm retfærdigt, skaf den arme og fattige Ret!
Dutch	Open uw mond; oordeel gerechtelijk, en doe den verdrukte en nooddruftige recht.
Finnish	Avaa suusi, tuomitse oikein, hanki kurjalle ja köyhälle oikeus.
French	Ouvre ta bouche, juge avec justice, Et défends le malheureux et l`indigent.
German	Tue deinen Mund auf und richte recht und räche den Elenden und Armen.
Haitian Creole	Pale pou yo. Pa fè patipri. Defann kòz malere yo ak endijan yo.
Hungarian	Nyisd meg a te szádat, ítélj igazságot; forgasd ügyét a szegénynek és a szûkölködõnek!
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Berjuanglah untuk mereka, dan jadilah hakim yang adil. Lindungilah hak orang miskin dan orang tertindas."
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bukakanlah mulutmu serta berbicaralah dengan adil dan benarkanlah hal orang yang miskin lagi teraniaya.
Italian	Apri la bocca e giudica con equit� e rendi giustizia all'infelice e al povero.
Korean	너 �" 입 을 열 어 공 의 로 재 판 하 여 간 곤 한 자 와 궁 핍 한 자 를 � 원 � 지 니 라
Maori	Kia puaki tou mangai, whakaritea te whakawa i runga i te tika, tohea te tohe a te ware, a te rawakore.
Modern Greek	Ανοιγε το στομα σου, κρινε δικαιως, και υπερασπιζου τον πτωχον και τον ενδεη.
Norwegian	Oplat din munn, døm rettferdig og hjelp armingen og den fattige til hans rett!
Portuguese	Abre a tua boca; julga retamente, e faze justiça aos pobres e aos necessitados.
Rumanian	Deschide-yi gura, judecq cu dreptate, wi apqrq pe cel nenorocit wi pe cel lipsit.
Russian	пФЛТЩЧБК ХУФБ ФЧПЙ �"МС � ТБЧПУХ�"ЙС Й �"МС �"ЕМБ �'Е�"ОПЗП Й ОЙЭЕЗП.
Spanish	Abre tu boca, juzga con justicia y defiende al pobre y al necesitado.
Swedish	Ja, upplåt din mun och döm med rättvisa, och skaffa den betryckte och fattige rätt. >Ps. 82,3. Jes. 1,17
Thai	จงอ้าปากของเจ้า พิพากษาอย่างชอบธรรม รักษาสิทธิของคนจนและคนขั�"สนให้คงอยู่
Ukrainian	�'ідкривай свої уста, й суди справедливо, і правосуддя зроби для убогого та для нужденного.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Needy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: edey, feedy, indeedie, nady, naey, Naledi, neaty, neay, Nedem, Nedev, nedi, nedn, nedy, neede, needn, ne'erday, Ne'erdy, neery, neety, Nefyn, nem, neny, neoy, neuhys, Newey, Niddry, Nieddu, nodey, nody, nudey, nudy, peedy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "needy" (pronounced nē"dē)
3	-ē" d ē	beady, deedy, greedy, Midi, reedy, seedy, speedy, tweedy, weedy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-y"
	-1 letter: dene, deny, dyne, eyed, eyen, eyne, need.
	-2 letters: dee, den, dey, dye, end, eye, nee, yen.
	-3 letters: de, ed, en, ne, ye.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-y"
	+1 letter: redeny, yeaned, yenned.
	+2 letters: deanery, decency, densely, doyenne, enjoyed, enskyed, honeyed, moneyed, needily, yearend, yearned.
	+3 letters: aerodyne, andesyte, bendayed, cayenned, conveyed, decenary, decently, doyennes, duvetyne, ecdysone, encysted, endogeny, ependyma, eyedness, fedayeen, ganymede, honeydew, hoydened, hyphened, keynoted, leadenly, legendry, megadyne, monkeyed, newlywed, pendency, phoneyed, redyeing, syndeses, tendency, tenderly, ungreedy, unyeaned, yearends.
	+4 letters: aerodynes, andesytes, bayoneted, blarneyed, decadency, drynesses, duvetynes, dysentery, ecdysones, encrypted, endlessly, endophyte, endostyle, ependymas, evidently, ganymedes, goldeneye, hackneyed, honeydews, indecency, journeyed, learnedly, legendary, megadynes, needfully, newlyweds, redefying, redenying, reenjoyed, remedying, residency, sedentary, shinneyed, slenderly, tourneyed, youthened.
	+5 letters: adherently, advertency, ascendency, bayonetted, concededly, cybernated, cyclodiene, cylindered, decadently, defensibly, deficiency, definitely, degeneracy, dementedly, dependably, dependency, deployment, designedly, detergency, divergency, dysenteric, dysgeneses, dysgenesis, endemicity, endoenzyme, endophytes, endostyles, endothermy, expediency, extendedly, eyednesses, frenziedly, gendarmery, goldeneyes, heterodyne, honeyguide, hyphenated, indecently, intendedly, keypunched, lamentedly, myelinated, needlessly, obediently, overdyeing, oxygenated, prebendary, precedency, presidency, reanalyzed, reconveyed, redolently, reedifying, reidentify, resignedly, stenotyped, syndesises, synecdoche, underbelly, unemployed, vinylidene.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 65 64 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-. . . -.. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01100101 01100100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#101 &#100 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0065 0064 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
meds needy	62
needy	28
needy family	26
meds.com needy	22
needy wife	10
help the needy	9
needy child	9
helping the needy	6
money needy	5
grant needy	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Needy

Definition: Needy

Needy

Adjective

Synonyms: Needy

Synonyms within Context: Needy

Poverty

Crosswords: Needy

Modern Usage: Needy

Screenplays

Clever

Commercial Usage: Needy

Books

Familiar Quotations: Needy

Publilius Syrus

Seneca

St. Jerome

The Koran

Historic Usage: Needy

John Locke

Use in Literature: Needy

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Needy

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Speeches: Needy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

Usage Frequency: Needy

Name Usage Frequency: Needy

Expression: Needy

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Needy

meds needy

needy

needy family

meds.com needy

needy wife

help the needy

needy child

helping the needy

money needy

grant needy

Modern Translations: Needy

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Albanian

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Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

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Romanian

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Spanish

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Thai

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukranian