poverty-stricken vs indigent

poverty-stricken and indigent both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
poverty-stricken	No	Yes	No	No
indigent	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, poverty-stricken and indigent are synonyms defined as:

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

poverty-stricken (adjective)	indigent (adjective)
poor enough to need help from others	poor enough to need help from others