Nghèo túng

a needy family

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Adj.

Poor, indigent, poverty-stricken, destitute, impoverished,penniless, impecunious, necessitous, underprivileged, deprived,disadvantaged, below the poverty level, in dire straits, in oron the way to the poorhouse, in reduced circumstances,down-and-out, insolvent, Colloq on one's uppers, dead or flat orstony-broke, hard up, strapped, pinched, on the breadline, upagainst it, Brit on the dole, US dead broke, on welfare, onrelief: It is not enough to look after needy families only atChristmas time.

Adj.

(needier, neediest) 1 (of a person) poor; destitute.

(of circumstances) characterized by poverty.

Neediness n.