Synonyms and Antonyms of necessitous
1
impossible to do without
- all the dreaded, necessitous decisions that one must make when arranging the funeral of a loved one
all-important, critical, essential, imperative, indispensable, integral, must-have, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, vital
prerequisite
compulsory, mandatory, nonelective, obligatory
consequential, crucial, important, major, material, meaningful, momentous, significant, substantial, weighty
basic, central, fundamental, key, organic
insistent, persistent, pressing, urgent
2
lacking money or material possessions
- amidst the holiday feasting, merrymaking and spending, it was easy to overlook the necessitous members of the community
beggared, beggarly, broke, destitute, dirt-poor, down-and-out, famished, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken, skint [chiefly British], threadbare
deprived, disadvantaged, dispossessed, unaffluent, underprivileged
bankrupt, bankrupted, bust (or busted), insolvent
possessionless, ruined
depressed, distressed, hand-to-mouth, hardscrabble, pinched, poorish, reduced, straitened
cash-strapped, low, short, tapped out
affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush, moneyed (also monied), opulent, rich, silk-stocking, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do
3
needing immediate attention
- firmly of the belief that no matter is so necessitous that it cannot be put off until tomorrow
acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, pressing, urgent
demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding
crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death (also life-or-death), serious, severe, vital
dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable
