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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-di-juhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪn dɪ dʒənt |
Definition of indigent
Origin :- c.1400, from Old French indigent, from Latin indigentem (see indigence). As a noun, "poor person," from early 15c.
- adj poor
- Fancy a school for novelists, with night classes for indigent poets!
- Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
- The windows without curtains had an indigent, sleepless look.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- Whoever has need of another is indigent, and assumes a posture.
- Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
- At one period he realised about £10,000, but he was latterly unfortunate and indigent.
- Extract from : « The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. » by Various
- He summed up in a disparaging glance the background of indigent furniture.
- Extract from : « The Touchstone » by Edith Wharton
- It is the haunt of the dissolute and the indigent; not only of the normal brute, but also of the satyr.
- Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
- Can he extort one noble thought from his weak and indigent brain?
- Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller
- And a pretty lot of ill-bred, miserable ignoramuses they were—the indigent!
- Extract from : « A Tramp's Wallet » by William Duthie
- He was so indigent, that he subsisted only on an allowance from the parish.
- Extract from : « On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, » by Samuel Felton
- Adjoining the Infirmary is an Asylum for the reception of indigent Lunatics.
- Extract from : « A Walk through Leicester » by Susanna Watts
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