indigents
Those without means
Indigents are people who lack the means to provide for themselves—the very poor, especially those dependent on public assistance or charity.
The term appears most often in legal and administrative contexts: The state provides legal counsel for indigents.
An indigent person may qualify for waived court fees or public defender services.
Without a dwelling
- vagrantsHomeless itinerant people
- beggarsThose soliciting charity
- paupersExtremely impoverished people
- destituteUtterly without means
penniless · dispossessed · unsheltered · rough sleepers · street people · down-and-out · transients · squatters
Comfort and prosperity
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- almsGifts to the destitute
- handoutsItems distributed freely
- food stampsSubsidized grocery purchasing vouchers
soup kitchen · shelter · social services · food bank · outreach · relief · public housing · benefits
homeless
Without a dwelling
- vagrantsHomeless itinerant people
- beggarsThose soliciting charity
- paupersExtremely impoverished people
destitute · penniless · dispossessed · unsheltered · rough sleepers · street people · down-and-out · transients · squatters · penurious
welfare
Comfort and prosperity
food stamps · soup kitchen · shelter · social services · food bank · outreach · relief · public housing · benefits · case workers
outcasts
Rejected, excluded people
stranded · helpless · vulnerable · neglected · forgotten · invisible · stigmatized · shunned · alienated · downtrodden
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
indigentsthe rich
Moneyed segment of society
millionaires · billionaires · plutocrats · moguls · tycoons
indigentsthe elite
Most powerful group
aristocrats · the upper class · nobility · patricians · socialites