What part of speech is needy?

Needy can be categorized as an adjective and a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. needy is a noun, singular of needies.
  • 2. needy is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • needy 
    more needy
    most needy
  • Positive: needy 
  • Comparative: more needy
  • Superlative: most needy

What does needy mean?

Definitions

Adjective

needy - demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree
needy - poor enough to need help from others

Noun

needy - needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

Examples of needy

#   Sentence  
1. noun They try to help the needy.
2. adj. We should help the needy.
3. adj. The city supplied the needy with blankets.
4. adj. Aniq turned slowly at the sound of the needy, narcissistic gurgle that sounded from behind him.
5. adj. What marvelous work he's doing, donating books to needy children!
6. adj. You're needy.
7. adj. Tom is needy.
8. adj. I'm needy.
9. adj. Tom is very needy.
10. adj. The socially needy receive an additional allowance.
11. adj. The charitable food bank provided each of their registered needy families with an allocation of basic foodstuffs.
12. adj. They've helped the needy.
13. adj. Tom is kind of needy.
14. adj. I wanted to say that I'm really needy and if you can help me, please do so.
15. adj. She tried as hard as she could to give only to the needy.
16. adj. We do this to help the needy.
Sentence  
noun
They try to help the needy.
adj.
We should help the needy.
The city supplied the needy with blankets.
Aniq turned slowly at the sound of the needy, narcissistic gurgle that sounded from behind him.
What marvelous work he's doing, donating books to needy children!
You're needy.
Tom is needy.
I'm needy.
Tom is very needy.
The socially needy receive an additional allowance.
The charitable food bank provided each of their registered needy families with an allocation of basic foodstuffs.
They've helped the needy.
Tom is kind of needy.
I wanted to say that I'm really needy and if you can help me, please do so.
She tried as hard as she could to give only to the needy.
We do this to help the needy.

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