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adjective
- 1. poor; needy: "a charity for the relief of indigent artists"
noun
- 1. a needy person.
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INDIGENT definition: 1. very poor 2. very poor 3. having no money or anything else of value: . Learn more.
The meaning of INDIGENT is suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished. How to use indigent in a sentence.
adjective. 1. so poor as to lack even necessities; very needy. 2. (usually foll by of) archaic. lacking (in) or destitute (of) noun. 3. an impoverished person. Collins English Dictionary.
INDIGENT meaning: 1. very poor 2. very poor 3. having no money or anything else of value: . Learn more.
An indigent person is extremely poor, lacking the basic resources of a normal life. Often the indigent lack not only money but homes. Indigent comes from a Latin word meaning wanting, which we used to use to mean “lacking” and not just to describe desires.
Definition of indigent adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Indigent definition: lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.. See examples of INDIGENT used in a sentence.
The earliest known use of the word indigent is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for indigent is from around 1422, in the writing of Thomas Hoccleve, poet and clerk.
lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished. 2. archaic. a. deficient in what is requisite. b. (usually fol. by of) destitute. noun. 3. a person who is indigent.
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