Meaning of INDIGENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'indijent
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| | Definition: | | [adj] poor enough to need help from others |
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| | Synonyms: | | destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poor, poverty-stricken |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In"di*gent\, a. [L. indigent, L. indigens, p. p. of
indigere to stand in need of, fr. OL. indu (fr. in- in) + L.
egere to be needy, to need.]
1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence;
needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Indigent faint souls past corporal toil. --Shak.
Charity consists in relieving the indigent.
--Addison.
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Needy or impoverished. A defendant who can demonstrate his or her indigence to the court may be assigned a court-appointed attorney at public expense. |
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| | Related Terms: | | almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, beggar, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, casual, charity case, deprived, destitute, disadvantaged, down-and-out, down-and-outer, flat broke, fleeced, ghettoized, hard up, hardcase, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, mendicant, necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauper, pauperized, penniless, penniless man, penurious, poor, poor devil, poor man, poorling, poverty-stricken, short, starveling, strapped, stripped, underprivileged, welfare client |
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