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Adjective: indigent  in-di-jent
  1. Poor enough to need help from others
    "The care of the indigent was extremely defective until the 1920's"
    - destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken

See also: indigence, poor

Encyclopedia: Indigent