Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913 Indigent /ĭn'-dĭj-ənt/ · In·di·gent · IPA /ˈɪndɪd͡ʒənt/ 01 a. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of.[Obs.] 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. “Indigent faint souls past corporal toil.” — Shak. “Charity consists in relieving the indigent.” — Addison.