indigence
11INDIGENCE — n. f. Grande pauvreté, privation du nécessaire. Extrême indigence. Il est tombé dans l’indigence, dans la plus affreuse indigence. être dans l’indigence. Fig., Indigence d’idées. Indigence d’esprit. Il se dit spécialement de l’état de pauvreté… …
12indigence — indigent ► ADJECTIVE ▪ poor; needy. ► NOUN ▪ a needy person. DERIVATIVES indigence noun. ORIGIN Latin, from indigere to lack …
13indigence — noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution their indigence appalled him a general state of need exists among the homeless • Syn: ↑need, ↑penury, ↑pauperism, ↑pauperization • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
14indigence — noun Date: 14th century a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking Synonyms: see poverty …
15indigence — /in di jeuhns/, n. seriously impoverished condition; poverty. [1325 75; ME < L indigentia need. See INDIGENT, ENCE] Syn. privation, need, want, penury. Ant. wealth. * * * …
16indigence — noun extreme poverty or destitution Syn: indigency Ant: affluence See Also: indigent …
17indigence — Synonyms and related words: bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand to mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, lack, mendicancy,… …
18indigence — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. want, need, destitution; see poverty 1 . See Synonym Study at poverty . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, need,… …
19indigence — in·di·gence || ɪndɪdÊ’É™ns n. poverty …
20indigence — n. Poverty, penury, destitution, want, need, necessity, privation, distress, pauper state, pauperism …
