English-Thai Dictionary

indigence

N ความยากจนข้นแค้น อย่าง ที่สุด  ความแร้นแค้น  destitution poverty richness weathiness kwam-yak-jon-kon-kaen-yang-ti-sud

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDIGENCE, INDIGENCY

n.[L. indigentia, from indigeo; in or ind, and egeo, to want, to lack. ] Want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty. A large portion of the human race live in indigence, while others possess more than they can enjoy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INDIGENCE

In "di *gence, n. Etym: [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See Indigent. ]

 

Defn: The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

 

Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

indigence

in di gence |ˈindijəns ˈɪndɪdʒəns | ▶noun a state of extreme poverty: he did valuable work toward the relief of indigence.

 

Oxford Dictionary

indigence

indigence |ˈɪndɪdʒ (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a state of extreme poverty; destitution: he did valuable work towards the relief of indigence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

indigence

indigence noun he did valuable work towards the relief of indigence: poverty, penury, impoverishment, impecuniousness, impecuniosity, destitution, pennilessness, privation, hand-to-mouth existence, pauperism; insolvency, bankruptcy, ruin, ruination; need, neediness, want, reduced /straitened /narrow circumstances, dire straits, deprivation, disadvantage, hardship, distress, financial distress, difficulties; beggary, mendicancy, vagrancy; rare pauperdom. ANTONYMS wealth.

 

French Dictionary

indigence

indigence n. f. nom féminin Grande pauvreté. : Ces familles vivent dans l ’indigence.