Synonyms for Indigent

Synonyms for "indigent" (125 found)

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Closest matches (25)

needy pauper poor almsman almswoman bankrupt beggar beggared beggarly bereaved bereft casual charity case

Adjective(10 words)

almsless arm badly off bankrupt beggared beggarly boracic broke broken broker than the ten commandments

Noun(2 words)

bankrupt beggar

Strong matches (38)

Related words (62)

Adjective(28 words)

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stone-broke stony stony-broke strapped stuck threadbare unwealthy wealthless

Noun(5 words)

insolvent lack-all lazarus pauper penny-father

lean low mendicant necessitous on relief out at elbows pauperized penniless penniless man penurious poor devil poor man poorling poverty stricken poverty-stricken rock short starveling stony straitened

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strapped stripped underprivileged unprosperous upper welfare client

Adjective(3 words)

necessitous needy poverty-stricken

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

affluent

Synonyms

4 entries

needy pauper poor poverty stricken

Related terms

3 entries

indigence indigency indigenous

derived

3 entries

indigently nonindigent unindigent

related to

4 entries

destitute in need indigence poor

similar

1 entries

poor

Translations

62 translations across 21 languages.

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Armenian

2 entries

աղքատ adj (poor; destitute)
չքավոր adj (poor; destitute)

Bengali

1 entries

মুহতাজ adj (poor; destitute)

Bulgarian

2 entries

беден adj (poor; destitute)
бедняк noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Catalan

2 entries

indigent adj (poor; destitute)
indigent noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Dutch

4 entries

arm adj (poor; destitute)
behoeftig adj (poor; destitute)
indigent adj (poor; destitute)
nooddruftig adj (poor; destitute)

Finnish

4 entries

köyhä adj (poor; destitute)
puutteenalainen adj (poor; destitute)
varaton adj (poor; destitute)
köyhä noun (a person in need or in poverty)

French

4 entries

indigent adj (poor; destitute)
nécessiteux adj (poor; destitute)
indigent noun (a person in need or in poverty)
nécessiteux noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Galician

1 entries

indixente adj (poor; destitute)

German

4 entries

Not leidend adj (poor; destitute)
arm adj (poor; destitute)
bedürftig adj (poor; destitute)
hilfsbedürftig adj (poor; destitute)

Irish

2 entries

daibhir adj (poor; destitute)
daibhir noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Italian

1 entries

indigente adj (poor; destitute)

Japanese

1 entries

貧乏人 noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Kalmyk

1 entries

яду adj (poor; destitute)

Latin

1 entries

indigēns adj (poor; destitute)

Māori

1 entries

takaonge adj (poor; destitute)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries

فقیر adj (poor; destitute)
یوقسول adj (poor; destitute)
درویش noun (a person in need or in poverty)
فقیر noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

oam adj (poor; destitute)

Portuguese

2 entries

indigente adj (poor; destitute)
indigente noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Russian

4 entries

бе́дный adj (poor; destitute)
бедствующий adj (poor; destitute)
ни́щий adj (poor; destitute)
нуждающийся adj (poor; destitute)

Spanish

2 entries

indigente adj (poor; destitute)
indigente noun (a person in need or in poverty)

Swedish

4 entries

behövande adj (poor; destitute)
fattig adj (poor; destitute)
nödlidande adj (poor; destitute)
utblottad adj (poor; destitute)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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He's in a program for indigent patients.

Source: tatoeba (9966090)

Being indigent is a misfortune, not a crime.

Source: tatoeba (9969636)

Help is available to indigent borrowers.

Source: tatoeba (10005709)

Many of the indigent children are so badly provided for by their parents, with both food and raiment, that they cannot attend school regularly; […]

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Indigent