necessitous

adjective

2.5 tons of dried milk was supplied to necessitous mothers:

needy, in need, poor, badly off, hard up, short of money, disadvantaged, underprivileged, unable to make ends meet, needful, in reduced/straitened circumstances, impoverished, poverty-stricken, penurious, penniless, impecunious, destitute, indigent, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse;

British on the breadline, without a penny to one's name;

informal on one's uppers;

British, informal without two pennies to rub together, without two (brass) farthings to rub together, in Queer Street;

rare pauperized, beggared.

▷antonyms wealthy, rich, well off.