indigent vs impoverished

indigent and impoverished both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
indigent	No	Yes	No	No
impoverished	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, indigent and impoverished are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of indigent include destitute, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken.

indigent (adjective)	impoverished (adjective)
poor enough to need help from others	destroyed financially
	poor enough to need help from others