adjective
- lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.
- Archaic.
- deficient in what is requisite.
- destitute (usually followed by of).
noun
- a person who is indigent.
adjective
- so poor as to lack even necessities; very needy
- (usually foll by of) archaic lacking (in) or destitute (of)
noun
- an impoverished person
c.1400, from Old French indigent, from Latin indigentem (see indigence). As a noun, “poor person,” from early 15c.