indigent Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
    poverty-stricken; needy; necessitous; impoverished; destitute.

WordNet

In"di*gent adjective
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913