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needy
Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
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  1. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
  2. In, or characterized by, need, or poverty; not having enough to live on; very poor
impoverished
Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
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  1. Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
  2. Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken:
poverty-stricken
Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
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  1. Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
  2. Extremely poor:
  3. Stricken with poverty; very poor
beggarly
So mean, petty, or paltry as to deserve contempt.
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  1. So mean, petty, or paltry as to deserve contempt.
  2. Like or fit for a beggar; very poor, worthless, inadequate, etc.
  3. Of, relating to, or befitting a beggar; very poor:
destitute
Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
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  1. Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
  2. Lacking the necessities of life; living in complete poverty
  3. Utterly lacking; devoid:
down-and-out
Incapacitated; prostrate.
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  1. Incapacitated; prostrate.
  2. Lacking funds, resources, or prospects.
impecunious
Having little or no money.
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  1. Having little or no money.
impoverished
Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
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  1. Deprived of richness or strength; limited or depleted:
  2. Reduced to poverty; poverty-stricken:
necessitous
That is necessary or essential
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  1. That is necessary or essential
  2. In great need; destitute; needy
  3. (Archaic) Needy, indigent, destitute, poor.
needy
Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
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  1. Wanting or needing affection, attention, or reassurance, especially to an excessive degree.
  2. In, or characterized by, need, or poverty; not having enough to live on; very poor
penniless
Without even a penny; extremely poor
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  1. Without even a penny; extremely poor
  2. Not having a penny; utterly impoverished; extremely poor.
  3. Very poor.
penurious
Unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy
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  1. Unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy
  2. Poverty-stricken; destitute.
  3. Characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished
poor
Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
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  1. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.
  2. Eliciting or deserving pity; pitiable:
  3. Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
poverty-stricken
Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
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  1. Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
  2. Extremely poor:
  3. Stricken with poverty; very poor
broke
Lacking funds:
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  1. Lacking funds:
  2. Having little or no ready money
  3. (Informal) Broken.
strapped
In financial need:
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  1. In financial need:
  2. (Informal) In great need of money
beggar
(Informal) A man or a boy.
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  1. (Informal) A man or a boy.
  2. A person who begs, or asks for charity, esp. one who lives by begging; mendicant
  3. A person who is very poor; pauper
down-and-out
One who is down-and-out.
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  1. One who is down-and-out.
down-and-outer
(Idiomatic) Someone who is down and out.
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  1. (Idiomatic) Someone who is down and out.
have-not
Singular variant of have nots.
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  1. Singular variant of have nots.
  2. One enjoying little or no material wealth:
  3. (Informal) A person or nation with little wealth or poor resources
pauper
Someone who is unable to provide for his own support; a monetarily very poor person; an indigent person. Paupers are excused from paying court fees under the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, so that they may avail themselves of equal access to the courts. See also in forma pauperis. Someone who is unable to provide for his own support; a monetarily very poor person; an indigent person. Paupers are excused from paying court fees under the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, so that they may avail themselves of equal access to the courts. See also in forma pauperis.
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  1. Someone who is unable to provide for his own support; a monetarily very poor person; an indigent person. Paupers are excused from paying court fees under the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, so that they may avail themselves of equal access to the courts. See also in forma pauperis. Someone who is unable to provide for his own support; a monetarily very poor person; an indigent person. Paupers are excused from paying court fees under the United States Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, so that they may avail themselves of equal access to the courts. See also in forma pauperis.
  2. One living on or eligible for public charity.
  3. Any person who is extremely poor
Find another word for indigent. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for indigent, like: needy, impoverished, poverty-stricken, poor, beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, necessitous and needy.

Sentence Examples

  • early as 1710 public school education was provided for indigent children.

  • Many workhouses have been established for indigent persons capable of work.

  • He compelled the wealthy to share their riches with the indigent and helpless and to make them their equals in respect of all the comforts and conditions of life.

  • Of this $30,000 was to found Smith's Agricultural School at Northampton, which opened for instruction in 1908; an income of $10,000 was to be paid to the American Colonization Society, but this society failed to comply with the restrictions imposed by the will, and the $Io,000 was incorporated with the Agricultural School fund; and $360,000 was devoted to indigent boys and girls, indigent young women and indigent wido«s.

  • In 1851 a compromise measure was substituted, increasing the state appropriation to $800,000 and exempting indigent parents from the " rate bill," which was finally abolished in 1867.

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