About The Word Indigent
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Indigent
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What's The Definition Of Indigent?
[adj] poor enough to need help from others
Synonyms | Synonyms for Indigent: destitute | impoverished | necessitous | needy | poor | poverty-stricken Related Terms | Find terms related to Indigent: almsman | almswoman | bankrupt | beggar | beggared | beggarly | bereaved | bereft | casual | charity case | deprived | destitute | disadvantaged | down-and-out | down-and-outer | flat broke | fleeced | ghettoized | hard up | hardcase | impecunious | impoverished | in need | in rags | in want | mendicant | necessitous | needy | on relief | out at elbows | pauper | pauperized | penniless | penniless man | penurious | poor | poor devil | poor man | poorling | poverty-stricken | short | starveling | strapped | stripped | underprivileged | welfare client See Also | Indigent In Webster's Dictionary \In"di*gent\, a. [L. indigent, L. indigens, p. p. of
indigere to stand in need of, fr. OL. indu (fr. in- in) + L.
egere to be needy, to need.]
1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence;
needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. --Shak.
Charity consists in relieving the indigent.
--Addison.
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