Indigent

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  • adjective. Experiencing want or need; impoverished.
  • adjective. Lacking or deficient.
  • noun. A poor or destitute person.
    • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.
  • adjective. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Poor; destitute; in need.
  • noun. A person in need, or in poverty.
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  • adjective. 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  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    able-bodied  benighted  broken-hearted  childless  comfortless  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    almsman  almswoman  bankrupt  beggar  beggared  
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