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- Dictionaryindigent/ˈɪndɪdʒ(ə)nt/
adjective
- 1. poor; needy: "a charity for the relief of indigent artists"
noun
- 1. a needy person.
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having no money or anything else of value: an indigent family. (Definition of indigent from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) indigent | Business English. adjective. formal uk / ˈɪndɪdʒ ə nt / us. Add to word list. very poor: We are a non-profit agency that provides legal services to indigent clients.
The meaning of INDIGENT is suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished. How to use indigent in a sentence.
having no money or anything else of value: an indigent family. (Definition of indigent from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) indigent | Business English. adjective. formal uk / ˈɪndɪdʒ ə nt / us. Add to word list. very poor: We are a non-profit agency that provides legal services to indigent clients.
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.
Indigent definition: lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.. See examples of INDIGENT used 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.
Definition of indigent adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
