| Necessitous 1. (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. 2. (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances. Thesaurus Entries 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 |