indigent
adjective
[ ˈɪndɪdʒ(ə)nt ]
• poor; needy.
• "a charity for the relief of indigent artists"
Similar:
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-pressed,
deprived,
disadvantaged,
distressed,
badly off,
beggarly,
beggared,
on one's uppers,
up against it,
broke,
flat broke,
strapped (for cash),
without a brass farthing,
without a bean,
without a sou,
as poor as a church mouse,
on one's beam-ends,
stony broke,
skint,
boracic (lint),
stone broke,
without a red cent,
on skid row,
penurious,
indigent
noun
• a needy person.
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’.
