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In some senses, needy is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
In need; poor.
Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
Such monitoring has often been a sticking point in the past, amid fears that food aid might be diverted to the Northern elite - or its military - rather than the needy.
Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
It's emotionally exhausting to be around her because she's so needy.
Needful; necessary.
It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]