indigent

Experiencing want or need; impoverished.

Lacking or deficient.

A poor or destitute person.

Wanting; lacking: followed by of.

Lacking means of comfortable subsistence or support; wanting necessary resources; needy; poor.

Synonyms Destitute, necessitous, reduced.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; — used with of.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Poor; destitute; in need.

A person in need, or in poverty.