̷ ̷ˈsesəd.əs, -ətəs adjective
Etymology: French nécessiteux, from nécessité necessity (from Latin necessitat-, necessitas ) + -eux -ous
1.
a. : hard up : reduced to a state of marked want : needy
was a necessitous widower with a marriageable daughter — Norman Douglas
the most necessitous members of the community — T.B.Macaulay
b. : straitened
necessitous circumstances
2. : urgent , pressing
except for the most necessitous reasons — Walter Goodman
3. : that is essential by reason of circumstances : that is unavoidable
will be unable to do its necessitous financing — Allan Sproul
Synonyms: see poor