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Indigent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Experiencing want or need; impoverished. See Synonyms at poor.

adj. Archaic Lacking or deficient.

n. A needy or destitute person.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Poor; destitute; in need.

n. A person in need, or in poverty.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.

adj. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Wanting; lacking: followed by of.

Lacking means of comfortable subsistence or support; wanting necessary resources; needy; poor.

Synonyms Destitute, necessitous, reduced.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. poor enough to need help from others

Word Usage

"He, to hear my mother's name made a byword and reproach, myself alluded to as the indigent daughter of an outcast, -- he, who seemed already lifted as high above me on the eagle wings of fortune, as the eyry of the king-bird is above the nest of the swallow, -- it was more than I could bear."

Equivalent

poor

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wanting void free destitute needy poor necessitous impoverished

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

friendless landless needy houseless necessitous powerless impoverish destitute uneducated maim