Definitions for necessitous

necessitous ne·ces·si·tous

Spelling: [nuh-ses-i-tuh s]
IPA: /nəˈsɛs ɪ təs/

Necessitous is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 584 anagrams from letters in necessitous (ceeinossstu).

Definitions for necessitous

adjective

  1. destitute or impoverished; needy; indigent:
  2. being essential or unavoidable:
  3. requiring immediate attention or action; urgent:

Origin of necessitous

First recorded in 1605-15; necessit(y) + -ous

Examples for necessitous

So Washington in 1778 thought that "Marshall is not a necessitous man."

Moreover, necessitous though I am, it goes against my pride to owe everything to my wife.

I should be loath to try such an experiment or deprive you of your child—but necessitous non habet legem, the school-book says.

Mr. Renaud renewed his proposal for a treat to the necessitous poor in the neighbourhood.

I then made her understand how money was the thing that was the least necessary to the necessitous.

They were all men of bad habits, and urgently necessitous, but yet of decent education and family.

That is true,” said I; “I have always said so, but you are not necessitous, and should not drab baulor.

Alleviate the toil of the necessitous, but do not prevent their useful employment of time and means.

Therefore to you alone do we see all necessitous Muses have recourse.

He became intemperate; and his intemperance made her necessitous.

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