Ne·ces·si·tous a.
1. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. --Arbuthnot.
2. Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.
-- Ne*ces*si*tous*ly, adv. -- Ne*ces*si*tous*ness, n.
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