indigently


in·di·gent

I0106400 (ĭn′dĭ-jənt)adj.1. Experiencing want or need; impoverished: distributed food to indigent families.2. Archaic Lacking or deficient.n. A poor or destitute person.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin indigēns, indigent-, present participle of indigēre, to need : indu-, in; see en in Indo-European roots + egēre, to lack.]
in′di·gent·ly adv.