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Indigent

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Adjective

1. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken

poor enough to need help from others

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Indigent

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adjective
1. 
so poor as to lack even necessities; very needy
2. (usually foll by of) archaic
lacking (in) or destitute (of)
noun
3. 
an impoverished person

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Indigent

see synonyms of indigent
adjective
1. 
in poverty; poor; needy; destitute
2.  Archaic
lacking; destitute (of)
noun
3. 
an indigent person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Indigent

see synonyms of indigent
adj.
1. Experiencing want or need; impoverished: distributed food to indigent families.
2. Archaic Lacking or deficient.
n.
A poor or destitute person.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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