- indigent
- adj1. poverty-stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; destitute, poor, needy, necessitous, barefoot, ragged, bad off, badly off; beggarly, mendicant; pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it, Inf. on one's uppers, Inf. hard up; financially embarrassed, out of cash, penniless, Inf. short, Brit. Sl. skint, Inf. broke, Inf. dead broke, Inf. flat broke, Inf. stone broke; unable to make both ends meet, poor as Job's turkey, unable to keep the wolf from the door; bankrupt, ruined, wiped out, Inf. on the rocks, insolvent, overdrawn, in the red; down and out, out at the elbows, down at the heels, seedy.2. lacking, wanting, in need; deprived, deficient, bereft, devoid, destitute of; without, sans; helpless, stranded, high and dry.n3. pauper, poor person, have-not, ragamuffin, tatterdemalion, hobo, Sl. bindle stiff; beggar, cadger, Inf. panhandler, mendicant, beadsman, almsman, Scot. gaberlunzie.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.