Skip to content

necessitous

Today it means: Needy, indigent, destitute, poor. Full definition →

Middle French nécessiteux

Ask AI about its historyChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

The story

Middle French · borrowed fromnécessiteux
English todaynecessitous

From necessity + -ous, after Middle French nécessiteux.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.