Ne‐ces″si‐tous (?), a. [Cf. F. nécessiteux.] 1. Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.
2. Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.
— Ne‐ces″si‐tous‐ly, adv. — Ne‐ces″si‐tous‐ness, n.