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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb need which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

needsome
  1. Marked by need; needy.
  2. Marked by necessity; necessary.
needy
  1. In need, poor.
  2. Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence
  3. Synonyms:
      4. poor, destitute, impoverished, indigent, deprived, disadvantaged, impecunious, penniless, underprivileged, needful, penurious, broke, necessitous, skint, badly off, dirt poor, in want, moneyless, pauperized, beggared, beggarly, famished, strapped, threadbare, unprosperous, poverty-stricken, down-and-out, in need, cleaned out, dirt-poor, down at heel, flat broke, hard up, in straitened circumstances, strapped for cash, dead broke, stone broke, stony broke, in reduced circumstances, on the breadline, as poor as a church mouse, down to last cent, unable to make ends meet, in Queer Street, unable to keep the wolf from the door, without two brass farthings to rub together, without two farthings to rub together, without two pennies to rub together, insolvent, bankrupt … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “This vast Federal spending could surely be allocated in better ways to accomplish rural revitalization in needy areas nationwide.”
      “She was acting like some needy loser who wanted everyone to love her.”
      “It could be by helping someone needy, whether it is a relative, a neighbour, a wayfarer, an orphan, a lady waiting to get married, or a student.”
needful
  1. Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. necessary, essential, requisite, vital, required, needed, indispensable, imperative, critical, crucial, necessitous, integral, prerequisite, fundamental, cardinal, principal, stipulated, chief, constitutive, wanted, capital, foremost, main, all-important, must-have, important, mandatory, called for, obligatory, key, compulsory, compelling, urgent, paramount, pressing, pivotal, of the essence, significant, pre-eminent, high priority, high-priority, consequential, burning, of great consequence, of the utmost importance, basic, acute, central, vitally important, life-and-death … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “I will do whatever is needful to obtain the release of my friends.”
      “Wahba used to visit the Bishop every year, and he used to give food and other things to the poor and needful.”
      “Instead of towering over us, Millie seemed very needful of protection herself.”
needed
  1. Necessary; being required.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. necessary, required, essential, desired, requisite, critical, integral, lacking, vital, wanted, compulsory, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, necessitous, obligatory, all-important, lacked, needful, called for, must-have, of the essence, important, crucial, key, prerequisite, fundamental, paramount, pivotal, significant, consequential, pre-eminent, urgent, central, high priority, high-priority, compelling, pressing, of great consequence, of the utmost importance, vitally important, basic, burning, life-and-death, acute, principal, cardinal, chief, intrinsic, quintessential … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Patience and time may be all that is needed for us to get ourselves through this sticky patch.”
needless
  1. Not needed; unnecessary.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. unnecessary, inessential, dispensable, useless, redundant, gratuitous, expendable, unneeded, superfluous, unessential, nonessential, unwarranted, unwanted, pointless, unrequired, excessive, purposeless, avoidable, causeless, groundless, supererogatory, uncalled-for, non-essential, uncalled for, too much, to no purpose, de trop, futile, worthless, unimportant, optional, irrelevant, extraneous, senseless, not required, unproductive, surplus, meaningless, aimless, purportless, fruitless, peripheral, trivial, additional, extrinsic, unavailing, unprofitable, valueless, excess, empty … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Frankly, I can't afford to go wasting fifteen quid on something as needless as this.”
      “It cannot be right that we should force people to suffer endless, needless agonies, knowing they will not get better.”
      “It is what Buddhists and various other doctrines aim to sever in an effort to transcend samsaric rebirth and needless suffering.”
needles
  1. Obsolete spelling of needless
needly
  1. (informal) Like a needle or needles.
needfull
  1. (archaic) needful
needier
  1. comparative form of needy: more needy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. poorer, skinter, worse off, beggarlier, more impoverished, more indigent, more deprived, more disadvantaged, more underprivileged, more needful, more penurious, more broke, more necessitous, more moneyless, more famished, more threadbare, more unprosperous, more poverty-stricken, more hard up, more stony broke, more bankrupt, more insolvent, more distressed, more ruined, more boracic, shorter, flatter, more depressed, more lacking, more straitened, more fortuneless, more busted, more wanting, more reduced, more broken, more tapped out, more hard-pressed, more derelict, more neglected, stonier, more unfortunate, unluckier, more empty-handed, more pathetic, abjecter, forlorner, more vagrant, more underserved, more finished, more craptastic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He is also a typical Iraqi, which is to say an exaggerator, a needier, a huckster.”
      “In a climate of economic hardship and political uncertainty, the needy are growing in numbers and getting needier.”
      “Seniors in better health and those with the most money would receive smaller vouchers, and sicker or needier seniors would receive large ones.”
neediest
  1. superlative form of needy: most needy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. poorest, skintest, worst off, beggarliest, most impoverished, most indigent, most deprived, most disadvantaged, most underprivileged, most needful, most penurious, most broke, most necessitous, most moneyless, most famished, most threadbare, most unprosperous, most poverty-stricken, most hard up, most stony broke, most bankrupt, most insolvent, most distressed, most ruined, most boracic, shortest, flattest, most depressed, most lacking, most straitened, most fortuneless, most busted, most wanting, most reduced, most broken, most tapped out, most hard-pressed, most derelict, most neglected, stoniest, most unfortunate, unluckiest, most empty-handed, most pathetic, forlornest, abjectest, most vagrant, most underserved, most finished, most craptastic … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The idea was to lift the neediest children out of the cycle of poverty by helping them and their parents, all too often their lone mothers.”
      “States and localities, their economies soured and their budgets overstrained, are unable to maintain services for their neediest citizens.”
      “As a general rule, this money doesn't help the poor, and forgiving the debt is not a gesture of kindness to the neediest people in the world.”
needing
  1. present participle of need
  2. Synonyms:
      3. requiring, desiring, lacking, wanting, necessitating, feeling a dearth of, feeling the necessity for, hankering for, having need for, having occasion for, having to have, having use for, hungering for, thirsting for, having need of, having occasion to, standing in need of, yenning for, craving, coveting, craving for, longing for, lusting after, lusting for, missing, pining for, wishing for, yearning for, aching for, fancying, hungering after, expecting, asking, calling for, challenging, commanding, depending on, calling out for, claiming, clamoring for, crying for, crying out for, demanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting on, involving, pressing … more
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