Usually means: Requiring excessive emotional or financial support.
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  1. needy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. needy, the needy: Merriam-Webster
  3. needy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. needy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. needy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. needy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Needy, needy: Wordnik
  8. needy, the needy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. needy: Wiktionary
  10. needy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. needy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. needy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Needy, needy, the needy: Dictionary.com
  14. needy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. needy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Needy (song), Needy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Needy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. needy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. needy: Rhymezone
  20. needy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. needy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. needy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. needy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. needy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. needy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. needy: Legal dictionary

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  1. needy: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. needy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In need; poor.
adjective:  Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
adjective:  (archaic) Needful; necessary.

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