necessitous

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From necessity + -ous, after Middle French nécessiteux.

Have you anything? do not borrow, for you are not in a necessitous condition. — Plutarch's Morals, Plutarch
Such taxes, therefore, fall almost always upon a necessitous person, and must, therefore, be frequently very cruel and oppressive. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
I.] and an uneasy, necessitous, busy, rich man seems to me more miserable than he that is simply poor. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne

destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken

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