mendicant (n.)
- abbot
- abstainer
- abstinent
- anchorite
- ascetic
- beadsman
- beggar
- begging
- bereaved
- brother
- bum
- bummer
- cadger
- celibate
- cenobite
- dervish
- drone
- fakir
- flagellant
- freeloader
- friar
- hermit
- hobo
- loafer
- monastic
- monk
- moocher
- mooching
- needy
- nonworker
- palmer
- panhandler
- parasite
- pilgrim
- prior
- puritan
- religious
- sannyasi
- schnorrer
- scrounger
- spiv
- sponger
- starveling
- stylite
- suppliant
- supplicant
- tramp
- yogi
mendicant (adj.)
- abstinent
- anchoritic
- ascetic
- austere
- beggarly
- bereaved
- bereft
- bum
- celibate
- conventual
- deprived
- disadvantaged
- eremitic
- impoverished
- indigent
- monastic
- necessitous
- needy
- petitionary
- poverty-stricken
- prayerful
- precative
- prior
- puritanical
- religious
- self-denying
- stripped
- suppliant
- supplicant
- supplicatory
- underprivileged
