Englishneedy
adjective
the food went to needy families in the area:
poor, deprived, disadvantaged, underprivileged, in want, needful, badly off, hard up, in reduced/straitened circumstances, unable to make ends meet, unable to keep the wolf from the door, poverty-stricken, indigent, impoverished, on one's beam-ends, as poor as a church mouse, dirt poor, destitute, penurious, impecunious, penniless, moneyless;
British on the breadline, without a penny to one's name;
informal on one's uppers, broke, flat broke, strapped for cash, strapped, cleaned out;
British, informal skint, stony broke, without two pennies to rub together, without two (brass) farthings to rub together, in Queer Street;
North American, informal stone broke;
rare necessitous, pauperized.
▷antonyms wealthy, affluent, rich, well off.