Definitions for indigent
ˈɪn dɪ dʒəntin·di·gent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-strickenadjective

   poor enough to need help from others

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. indigentnoun

   A person in need, or in poverty

2. indigentadjective

   Poor; destitute; in need.

3. Etymology: Circa 1400,, from indigentem, form of indigere, from indu + egere.\

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. INDIGENTadjective

   Etymology: indigent, French; indigens, Latin.

   1. Poor; needy; necessitous.

   Charity consists in relieving the indigent. Addison.

   2. In want; wanting.

   Rejoice, O Albion, sever'd from the world
   By nature's wise indulgence; indigent
   Of nothing from without. Phillips.

   3. Void; empty.

   Such bodies have the tangible parts indigent of moisture. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Indigent

   Poverty is a state or condition in which a person lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in statistics or economics there are two main measures: absolute poverty compares income against the amount needed to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing, and shelter; relative poverty measures when a person cannot meet a minimum level of living standards, compared to others in the same time and place. The definition of relative poverty varies from one country to another, or from one society to another.Statistically, as of 2019, most of the world's population live in poverty: in PPP dollars, 85% of people live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and 10% live on less than $1.90 per day now changed to 2.15$/day.(extreme poverty). According to the World Bank Group in 2020, more than 40% of the poor live in conflict-affected countries. Even when countries experience economic development, the poorest citizens of middle-income countries frequently do not gain an adequate share of their countries' increased wealth to leave poverty. Governments and non-governmental organizations have experimented with a number of different policies and programs for poverty alleviation, such as electrification in rural areas or housing first policies in urban areas. The international policy frameworks for poverty alleviation, established by the United Nations in 2015, are summarized in Sustainable Development Goal 1: "No Poverty". Social forces, such as gender, disability, race and ethnicity, can exacerbate issues of poverty—with women, children and minorities frequently bearing unequal burdens of poverty. Moreover, impoverished individuals are more vulnerable to the effects of other social issues, such as the environmental effects of industry or the impacts of climate change or other natural disasters or extreme weather events. Poverty can also make other social problems worse; economic pressures on impoverished communities frequently play a part in deforestation, biodiversity loss and ethnic conflict. For this reason, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and other international policy programs, such as the international recovery from COVID-19, emphasize the connection of poverty alleviation with other societal goals.

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1. indigent

   Indigent refers to a person who is extremely poor, lacking the basic resources and necessities of life due to poverty. They are often unable to afford basic needs such as food, clothes, and housing.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Indigentadjective

   wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of

2. Indigentadjective

   destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous

3. Etymology: [L. indigent, L. indigens, p. p. of indigere to stand in need of, fr. OL. indu (fr. in- in) + L. egere to be needy, to need.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Indigent

   in′di-jent, adj. in need of anything: destitute of means of subsistence: poor.—n. In′digence.—adv. In′digently. [Fr.,—L. indigens, -entis, pr.p. of indigĕre—indu, or in, in, egēre, to need.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of indigent in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of indigent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of indigent in a Sentence

1. Kathryn Kase:

   Up until now, Mr. Panetti has had to proceed without any expert assistance, he is indigent, has been on death row for 20 years and has no way to afford his own mental health professionals.

2. Jack Vanderhei:

   I really can't explain why so many people are confident about their ability to pay for long-term care, it might be that they think - wrongly - that Medicare is going to cover it, or maybe they'll just spend down to indigent levels and go on Medicaid. But there's no way this is a justifiable sense of optimism.

3. Robert Dunham:

   Both states have changed the way in which indigent capital defense is provided. Counsel makes a huge difference.

4. Jeffrey Clayton:

   They should stick to, Kellen Funk know, cases where typically we see problems with indigent parties getting ensnared in the system, and that’s those low-level misdemeanor cases.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=indigent
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indigent
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=indigent
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigent
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indigent
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=indigent