Word Meanings - INDIGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls

Additional info about word: INDIGENT

stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDIGENT)

• Poor
• Indigent
• moneyless
• impecunious
• penniless
• weak
• meagre
• insufficient
• deficient
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• thin
• scanty
• bald

Related words: (words related to INDIGENT)

• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• IMPECUNIOUS
  Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.
• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• PENNILESS
  Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
• INDIGENT
  stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls
• INCONSIDERABLE
  Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum. "The baser scum and inconsiderable dregs of Rome." Stepney. -- In`con*sid"er*a*ble*ness,
• SCANTY
  1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope. 2. Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words;
• INSUFFICIENT
  1. Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality. "Insufficient for His praise." Cowper. 2. Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill;
• FAULTY
  1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• MEAGRE
  A large European sciænoid fish ,
• INDIGENTLY
  In an indigent manner.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• INDEFICIENT
  Not deficient; full. Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.
• MEAGER; MEAGRE
  Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. (more info) 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.
• MEAGERLY; MEAGRELY
  Poorly; thinly.