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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Needy \Need"y\, adjective [Compar. {Needier}; superl. {Neediest}.]
1. Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. --Deut. xv. 11.
Spare the blushes of needy merit. --Dr. T. Dwight.
2. Necessary; requisite. [Obs.]
Corn to make your needy bread. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
needy
adjective: poor enough to need help from others [syn: {destitute}, {impoverished}, {indigent}, {necessitous}, {poverty-stricken}] [also: {neediest}, {needier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "needy": beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, chronic poverty area, dead, depressed population, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down-and-out, flat, fleeced, ghetto-dwellers, ghettoized, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags, in reduced circumstances, in want, indigent, insolvent, mendicant, necessitous, on relief, on welfare, out at elbows, pauperized, penniless, penurious, pinched, poor, poverty-stricken, starveling, strapped, stripped, the disadvantaged, the distressed, the down-and-out, the forgotten man, the have-nots, the needy, the other America, the poor, the underprivileged, the urban poor, underdeveloped nation, underprivileged, unprosperous, up against it, welfare rolls
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