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indigent
/ˈɪndɪdʒənt/
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What does indigent mean?
adjective
- Poor; destitute; in need.
noun
- A person in need, or in poverty.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- (archaic) Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪndɪdʒənt/
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Anne was not so indigent that she needed to take to poisoning as a means of supporting her family.
That which is carried on for the benefit of the poor and the indigent is too often either neglected or oppressed.
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In those places where the rich and powerful are assembled together the weak and the indigent feel themselves oppressed by their inferior condition.
We had a drive through a bloomy and odorous fairy-land, to the Refuge for the Indigent—a spacious and comfortable home, with hospitals, etc., for both sexes.
The people, therefore, who were numerous and indigent, greedily embraced it, and crowded continually to the forum, with tumultuous demands to have it put to the vote.