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

2. (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.

beggarly bereaved bereft broke deprived destitute disadvantaged flat fleeced fortuneless ghettoized impecunious impoverished in need in rags in want indigent mendicant necessitous needy on relief out at elbows pauperized poverty-stricken starveling stripped underprivileged