<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.</li><li>Synonyms: distressed, penurious, necessitous.</li><li>Archaic: deficient in what is requisite.</li><li>destitute (usually followed by of).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a person who is indigent.</li></ul>