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indigent | mad |

As an adjective indigent

is poor; destitute; in need.

As a noun indigent

is a person in need, or in poverty.

As a pronoun mad is

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indigent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Poor; destitute; in need.
  • * 1830 , Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia , Thomas Ritchie (1830), page 422:
    • Many of the indigent children are so badly provided for by their parents, with both food and raiment, that they cannot attend school regularly;
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • I had since my introduction to the prince been sensitive to the fact that he must think an obviously indigent soldier of fortune will sooner or later open the subject of a subscription to the Greek Cause.
  • * 2011 , Carla Ulbrich, How Can You Not Laugh at a Time Like This?: Reclaim Your Health With Humor, Creativity, and Grit , Tell Me Press (2011), ISBN 9780981645346, page 65:
    • Because of this, when my second major health fiasco happened, I had no insurance, so I went to a teaching hospital where they took indigent patients.
  • * 2013 , Larry J. Siegel & John L. Worral, Essentials of Criminal Justice , Wadsworth (2013), ISBN 9781111835569, page 162:
    • In numerous Supreme Court decisions since Gideon v. Wainwright , the states have been required to provide counsel for indigent defendants at virtually all other stages of the criminal process, beginning with arrest and concluding with the defendant's release from the system.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person in need, or in poverty.
  • * 1975 , Robertson Davies, World of Wonders , Penguin Books (1976), ISBN 0140043896, page 161:
    • I liked the streets best, so I walked and stared, and slept in a Salvation Army hostel for indigents'. But I was no ' indigent ; I was rich in feeling, and that was a luxury I had rarely known.
  • * 2009 , Mara Vorhees, Moscow , Lonely Planet (2009), ISBN 9781740598248, page 29:
    • The influx of indigents overwhelmed the city's meagre social services and affordable accommodation.
  • * 2011 , Michael Parenti, Democracy for the Few , Wadsworth (2011), ISBN 9780495911265, page 78:
    • Then in 2005 a Republican-led Congress passed a bill requiring millions of low-income people to pay higher co-payments and premiums under Medicaid. The result was that many more indigents had to forgo care.

    Related terms

    * indigence

    References

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    mad

    English

    Adjective

    (madder)
  • Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have heard my grandsire say full oft, / Extremity of griefs would make men mad .
  • Angry, annoyed.
  • * , chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}
  • Wildly confused or excited.
    • to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred
  • * Bible, Jer. 1. 88
    • It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
  • * 1787: The Fair Syrian, R. Bage, p.314
    • My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.
  • Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  • Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
  • (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
  • (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; , much or many.
  • (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

    • Usage notes

    While within the United States and Canada, the word mad'' ''does'' generally imply ''anger'' rather than insanity, such usage is still considered informal. Furthermore, if one is described as having "gone mad" or "went mad", this will unquestionably be taken as denoting ''insanity''''', and not anger. Meanwhile, if one "is mad at" something or has "been mad about" something, it will be assumed that they are '''''angered'' rather than insane. In addition, if the word is understood as being used literally, it will most likely be taken as meaning "insane". Also, in addition to the former, such derivatives as "madness", "madman", "madhouse" and "madly" ''purely denote insanity, irrespective of whether one is in the Commonwealth or in the United States. Lastly, within Commonwealth countries other than Canada, mad'' typically implies the ''insane'' or ''crazy'' sense more so than the ''angry sense.

    Synonyms

    * (insane) See also * (angry) See also * wicked, mighty, kinda, , hella.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (slang, New England, New York, and, UK, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
    • He was driving mad slow.
    It's mad hot today.
    He seems mad keen on her.

    Synonyms

    * hella; helluv;

    Derived terms

    * mad as a hatter * madden * madding * madhouse * madly

    Verb

    (madd)
  • To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
  • * c''. 1595 , (William Shakespeare), '' , Act V Scene 5:
    • This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
  • *, I.2.4.iv:
    • He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].

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