necessitous

adjective3

1. •
   Lacking; required.

   • I think that a part of my assignment is to distill out of the raw material of my experience all the necessitous ingredients that I need to make my journey. — 2015
2. •
   Necessary; unavoidable.

   • Those are the necessitous things you must do to make the farm a going concern and make it attractive to the farmer to buy it. — 1940
3. •
   (no longer used) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.

   • For all our vow of poverty, we can by rule amass to the extent of ’two shillings’; but it is to be given to our necessitous kindred, or in charity. — 1843