neediest

ADJECTIVE

deprived, impoverished

Synonyms

STRONGEST

destitute disadvantaged indigent penniless poor poverty-stricken underprivileged

STRONG

down-and-out flat

WEAK

beggared dead broke dirt poor down at heel down to last cent impecunious necessitous penurious unprosperous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

affluent lucky privileged prosperous rich wealthy

Example Sentences

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Even worse, it seems that the weediest species seem to thrive disproportionately in high CO2 environments.

From Time Magazine Archive

For of all the stagnant ponds I ever beheld, it is the greenest and weediest.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

Had I not a hundred times been told, when sent to the wood-pile or the weediest part of the garden in my youthful days, that "Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do?"

From Helen's Babies by Habberton, John

The weediest Tommy in your Company can "carry on."

From The Tree of Heaven by Sinclair, May