1. Poor enough to need help from others
   "The indigent family struggled to afford basic food and shelter";
   - destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, dirt-poor [informal]

1. A person who is very poor
   "The care of the indigent was extremely defective until the 1920's";
   - pauper

Derived forms: indigents

See also: poor

Type of: have-not, poor person

Encyclopedia: Indigent