Indigent - English meaning

Indigent – definitions in English dictionary

adjective
Poor; needy.
Usage examples:
A charity for the relief of indigent artists
Synonims:
Poor Impecunious Destitute Penniless Impoverished Poverty-stricken Down and out Pauperized Without a penny to one's name Insolvent Ruined Needy In need In want Hard up On the breadline Hard-p

noun
A needy person.
Usage examples:
Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusad…

adjective
Having no money or anything else of value
Usage examples:
An indigent family

adjective
Very poor
Usage examples:
We are a non-profit agency that provides legal services to indigent clients.

Indigent translation into English

Indigent: translate from English into Chinese

贫穷的

Indigent: translate from English into Dutch

Behoeftig, Arm

Indigent: translate from English into French

Indigent

Indigent: translate from English into German

Bedürftig

Indigent: translate from English into Hindi

दरिद्र, निर्धन, गरीब, जरूरतमंद, अकिंचन, मुहताज, बेचारा

Indigent: translate from English into Italian

Indigente, Povero, Mendicante

Indigent: translate from English into Korean

가난한

Indigent: translate from English into Russian

Неимущий, Нуждающийся, Бедный

Indigent: translate from English into Spanish

Indigente, Pobre

Word origin

late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin indigent- ‘lacking’, from the verb indigere, from indi- (strengthened form of in- ‘into’) + egere ‘to need’.

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Indigent synonims

destitute

adjective
Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.
Usage examples:
The charity cares for destitute children

adjective
Without money, possessions, or any of the things needed to live
Usage examples:
These groups gathered clothing, schoolbooks, and medical supplies for the destitute flood victims.

adjective
Without money, food, a home, or possessions
Usage examples:
During the global economic crisis many people were left destitute., poverty and destitution are wid…

Destitute - all meanings in English

impecunious

adjective
Having little or no money.
Usage examples:
A titled but impecunious family

adjective
Having very little money
Usage examples:
The company suffered huge losses as its young, impecunious buyers failed to start to make payments …

Impecunious - all meanings in English

impoverished

adjective
(of a person or area) made poor.
Usage examples:
Impoverished villages

verb
Make (a person or area) poor.
Usage examples:
The wars had impoverished him

adjective
Extremely poor
Usage examples:
An impoverished family

Impoverished - all meanings in English

insolvent

adjective
Unable to pay debts owed.
Usage examples:
The company became insolvent

noun
An insolvent person.
Usage examples:
Since when did insolvents have the right to impose their failed prescriptions on flourishing entrep…

adjective
(esp. of a company) unable to pay what you owe because you do not have enough money
Usage examples:
When it discovered the loans could not be repaid, the bank became insolvent.

Insolvent - all meanings in English

needy

adjective
(of a person) lacking the necessities of life; very poor.
Usage examples:
Needy and elderly people

Needy - all meanings in English

pauperized

verb
Make very poor; impoverish.
Usage examples:
The party pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people

Pauperized - all meanings in English

penniless

adjective
(of a person) having no money; very poor.
Usage examples:
A penniless young student

adjective
Without any money at all
Usage examples:
A penniless youth

adjective
Without any money at all
Usage examples:
A series of bad investments left him almost penniless.

Penniless - all meanings in English

poor

adjective
Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
Usage examples:
They were too poor to afford a telephone

Poor - all meanings in English

poverty-stricken

adjective
Extremely poor
Usage examples:
My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

Poverty-stricken - all meanings in English

ruined

adjective
(of a building or place) reduced to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.
Usage examples:
A ruined castle

verb
Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.
Usage examples:
The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers

Ruined - all meanings in English

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