needy

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. In need; poor.
    — Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
  2. Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
    — Near-synonym: clingy
  3. Needful; necessary. archaic
    — It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]

词形变化

needier comparative neediest superlative

词汇关系

反义词
confident self-sufficient
衍生词
needihood needily neediness needyhood needy mizzler unneedy

词源

From Middle English nedy, nedi (“necessitous”), from Old English nēdiġ, *nīediġ ("of need, obligated, compelled"; found in the derivative nīediġnes (“obligation”)), from Proto-Germanic *naudigaz (“of need, forced, compelled”), equivalent to need + -y. Cognate with Scots nedy, neidy (“needy, necessitous, impoverished”), Saterland Frisian niedich (“miserable, poor, wretched, needy”), Saterland Frisian nöödich (“necessary, needful”), West Frisian nedich (“needful, needed”), Dutch nodig (“necessary”), Middle Low German nōdich (“necessary, urgent, by requirement”), German nötig (“necessary, needful”), Danish nødig (“necessary”), Swedish nödig (“necessary”), Icelandic nauðugur (“constrained”).
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