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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːdi/
• 韻: -iːdi

形容詞

needy (comparative needier, superlative neediest)

1. In need; poor.

   Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.

   • 2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumes”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Such monitoring has often been a sticking point in the past, amid fears that food aid might be diverted to the Northern elite - or its military - rather than the needy.

2. Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.

   It's emotionally exhausting to be around her because she's so needy.

3. (archaic) Needful; necessary.
   • 1861, Isaak August Dorner, Patrick Fairbairn, History of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ:

     It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space かつ 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 […]

同意語

• (in need): See also Thesaurus:impoverished

反意語

• (desiring constant affirmation): confident, self-sufficient

派生語

アナグラム

• Edney