adj. 1. Experiencing want or need; impoverished: distributed food to indigent families. 2. Archaic Lacking or deficient. n. A poor or destitute person. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin indigēns, indigent-, present participle of indigēre, to need : indu-, in; see en in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + egēre, to lack.] indi·gent·ly adv. |
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