indigent
Plural: indigents
Adjective Satellite
- poor enough to need help from others
Adj
- Poor; destitute; in need.
- Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.
Noun
- A person who is poor and needy; impoverished.
- A person in need, or in poverty.
Examples
- Despite being an INDIGENT, he skillfully managed to play a seven-letter word on Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
Circa 1400, Middle French, from Latin indigēns, present participle of indigeō (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egeō (“to be in need, want”).
Synonyms
destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, Lazarus, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggar, beggared, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments, dirt poor, disadvantaged, down and out, down at heel, down on one's luck, down on one's uppers, empty-handed, feeling the pinch, flat, hard up, have not, impecunious, in need, indigent, insolvent, lack-all, lower-class, oofless, pauper, pauperized, penniless, penny-father, penurious, pinched, pok kai, poor, poor as Job, poor as a church mouse, poor as a rat, possessionless, poverty-ridden, shillingless, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke, strapped, stuck, threadbare, unwealthy, wealthless
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
indigent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordindigent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
indigent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary