Definition of Necessitous

1. Adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.

Exact synonyms: Destitute, Impoverished, Indigent, Needy, Poverty-stricken
Similar to: Poor
Derivative terms: Indigence, Necessity, Need, Neediness

Definition of Necessitous

1. a. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

Definition of Necessitous

1. Adjective. (archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor. ¹

2. Adjective. (archaic) In need, lacking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Necessitous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Necessitous

necessary cause
necessary condition
necessary evil
necessary evils
necessitarian
necessitarianism
necessitarians
necessitate
necessitated
necessitates
necessitating
necessitation
necessitations
necessitied
necessities
necessitous (current term)
necessitously
necessitousness
necessitude
necessitudes
necessity
necessity is the mother of innovation
necessity is the mother of invention
necitumumab
neck-brace
neck-braces
neck-deep
neck-gable
neck-gables

Literary usage of Necessitous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck, Rufus Daniel Smith (1922)
"THEIR necessitous CONDITION Another salient fact in connection with the recent immigrant labor supply has been the necessitous condition of the newcomers ..."

2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"... whom God hath honoured for His almoners, and sanctified to- be His dispensers of the fruits of charity and mercy, in this my •necessitous and ..."

3. Life of George Washington by Washington Irving (1884)
"necessitous State of the Country. — Washington urge* a Foreign Loan.—Mission of Colonel I/aurens to France to geek Aid in Men and Money. ..."

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