Insolvent vs. Indigent — What's the Difference?

Unable to meet debts or discharge liabilities; bankrupt.

Experiencing want or need; impoverished

Insufficient to meet all debts, as an estate or fund.

(Archaic) Lacking or deficient.

Of or relating to bankrupt persons or entities.

A poor or destitute person.

A bankrupt.

Poor; destitute; in need.

Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.

(archaic) Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.

Owing more than one has in assets.

A person in need, or in poverty.

Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; - used with of.

(legal) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.

Poor enough to need help from others

One who is insolvent; as insolvent debtor; - in England, before 1861, especially applied to persons not traders.

Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

Unable to meet or discharge financial obligations;