Indigent synonyms and antonyms

ĭn'dĭ-jənt

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destitute
Lacking the necessities of life; living in complete poverty
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lacking
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impoverished
Reduced to poverty.
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poverty-stricken
Characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty
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needy
Desiring constant affirmation, lacking in self confidence
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impecunious
The definition of impecunious is a person without any money.
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penniless
Entirely without money.
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poor (related)
Not adequate in quality or quantity; inferior:
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pauper
One who is extremely poor.
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beggarly
Like or fit for a beggar; very poor, worthless, inadequate, etc.
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down-and-out
Incapacitated; prostrate.
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necessitous
In great need; destitute; needy
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broke
Bankrupt
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strapped
In financial need:
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beggar
The definition of a beggar is a person who asks people for money or gifts to sustain himself, or is a person who is extremely poor.
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down-and-outer
(Idiomatic) Someone who is down and out.
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have-not
The definition of a have not is someone or a group of people who does not possess as much material wealth or resources as others.
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hard-up
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on-one-s-uppers
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rich (related)
Highly varied, developed, or complex:
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homeless
Having no home; without a permanent place of residence
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wanting
Absent; lacking:
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penurious
Characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished
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wealthy (antonym)
Of, characterized by, or suggestive of wealth or abundance
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Indigent Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You don't look indigent.

  • Immediately north of Poughkeepsie is the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane (1871); in the city are the Vassar Brothers' Hospital (1878), with which a nurses' training school is connected; the Vassar Brothers' Home (1881) for aged and infirm men; the Poughkeepsie Orphan House and Home for the Friendless (1847); the Old Ladies' Home (1870); the Pringle Memorial Home (1899), for aged and indigent men, and the Adriance Memorial Library (45,000 volumes in 1909).

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