indigent as an adjective: - 1
indigent
adjective
1 indigent
Poor enough to need help from others.
synonyms: destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken.
Roget 804:
poor,
indigent;
poverty-stricken;
badly off,
poorly off,
ill off;
poor as a rat,
poor as a church mouse,
poor as a Job;
fortuneless†,
dowerless†,
moneyless†,
penniless;
unportioned†,
unmoneyed†;
impecunious;
out of money,
out of cash,
short of money,
short of cash;
without a rap,
not worth a rap
etc.
(money)
800;
qui n'a pas le sou [Fr.],
out of pocket,
hard up;
out at elbows,
out at heels;
seedy,
bare-footed;
beggarly,
beggared;
destitute;
fleeced,
stripped;
bereft,
bereaved;
reduced;
homeless.
in want
etc.
n.;
needy,
necessitous,
distressed,
pinched,
straitened;
put to one's shifts,
put to one's last shifts;
unable to keep the wolf from the door,
unable to make both ends meet;
embarrassed,
under hatches;
involved
etc.
(in debt)
806;
insolvent
etc.
(not paying)
808.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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