Synonyms of indigent

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adjective

ˈin-di-jənt 

as in impoverished

lacking money or material possessions

because he was indigent, the court appointed a lawyer to represent him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• impoverished
• poor
• needy
• destitute
• broke
• beggared
• penniless
• impecunious
• bankrupt
• deprived
• poverty-stricken
• penurious
• pauperized
• needful
• down-and-out
• dirt-poor
• necessitous
• famished
• beggarly
• bankrupted
• depressed
• out of pocket
• underprivileged
• out at elbows
• threadbare
• disadvantaged
• skint
• out at the elbows
• hard up
• dispossessed
• distressed
• insolvent
• down on one's luck
• unaffluent
• ruined
• hardscrabble
• busted
• reduced
• poorish
• straitened
• bust
• cash-strapped
• hand-to-mouth
• possessionless
• pinched
• short
• low
• tapped out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wealthy
• affluent
• rich
• well-to-do
• moneyed
• monied
• opulent
• fat
• flush
• well-off
• prosperous
• silk-stocking
• well-heeled
• fat-cat
• comfortable
• deep-pocketed

indigent

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noun

as in pauper

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pauper
• have-not
• down-and-out
• down-and-outer
• hobo
• beggar
• mendicant
• drifter
• vagabond
• tramp
• panhandler
• transient
• waif
• ne'er-do-well
• roamer
• insolvent
• urchin
• ragamuffin
• almsman
• bankrupt
• gamine

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• affluent
• plutocrat
• deep pocket
• moneybags
• millionaire
• fat cat
• have
• billionaire
• millionairess
• success
• magnate
• tycoon
• moneymaker
• nabob
• gazillionaire
• billionairess

Examples of indigent in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Key will still have to come back to court at a later date; Lane’s family is asking for $15,000 in restitution to pay for his funeral, an impossible number because Key is already indigent, Ermine said. —Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2024

At the turn of the millennium, about a third of Brazil’s population languished beneath the international poverty line (surviving on $2 a day), and about 15 percent was indigent (living on less than $1.25 a day). —Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015

Civil pro bono case for indigent client in nursing home ⦁ Facts: 89 year-old woman suffered a stroke that caused brain injury and was placed in a nursing home for end-of-life care. —Lourdes Casanova, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024

Listen to this article A Transportation Security Administration agent from the Bronx stole a nearly $23,000 government paycheck sent to a defense lawyer who represented an indigent client, federal prosecutors allege. —John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2024