Indigent Definition

ĭndĭ-jənt
indigents
adjective
Experiencing want or need; impoverished.
Distributed food to indigent families.
American Heritage
In poverty; poor; needy; destitute.
Webster's New World
Lacking; destitute (of)
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noun
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An indigent person.
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Other Word Forms of Indigent

Noun

Singular:
indigent
Plural:
indigents

Origin of Indigent

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin indigēns indigent- present participle of indigēre to need indu- in en in Indo-European roots egēre to lack

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Circa 1400, Middle French, from Latin indigentem, form of indigere (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egere (“be in need, want”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Only relation to antonym affluent is common Latinate suffix +‎ -ent.

    From Wiktionary

Indigent Sentence Examples

  • Many workhouses have been established for indigent persons capable of work.

  • He compelled the wealthy to share their riches with the indigent and helpless and to make them their equals in respect of all the comforts and conditions of life.

  • You don't look indigent.

  • In 1851 a compromise measure was substituted, increasing the state appropriation to $800,000 and exempting indigent parents from the " rate bill," which was finally abolished in 1867.

  • Immediately north of Poughkeepsie is the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (1871); in the city are the Vassar Brothers' Hospital (1878), with which a nurses' training school is connected; the Vassar Brothers' Home (1881) for aged and infirm men; the Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for the Friendless (1847); the Old Ladies' Home (1870); the Pringle Memorial Home (1899), for aged and indigent men, and the Adriance Memorial Library (45,000 volumes in 1909).

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Words Starting With

IININD

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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