indigent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Poor; destitute; in need.

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

2. sıfat Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.

   “Again some Bodies dissolve both in Fire and Water, as Gums; &c. And these are such, as have both Plenty of Spirit; and their tangible Parts indigent of Moisture: the former promotes the Dilatation of the Spirits by the Fire and the latter stimulates the Parts to receive the Liquor.”

3. isim A person in need, or in poverty.

   “I liked the streets best, so I walked and stared, and slept in a Salvation Army hostel for indigents. But I was no indigent; I was rich in feeling, and that was a luxury I had rarely known.”