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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. of the most contemptible kind;
- Example: "abject cowardice"
- Example: "a low stunt to pull"
- Example: "a low-down sneak"
- Example: "his miserable treatment of his family"
- Example: "You miserable skunk!"
- Example: "a scummy rabble"
- Example: "a scurvy trick"
[syn: abject, low, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy]

2. most unfortunate or miserable;
- Example: "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"
- Example: "abject poverty"

3. showing utter resignation or hopelessness;
- Example: "abject surrender"
[syn: abject, unhopeful]

4. showing humiliation or submissiveness;
- Example: "an abject apology"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Abject \Ab*ject"\ ([a^]b*j[e^]kt"), v. t. [From Abject, a.]
   To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
   to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Abject \Ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), n.
   A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
   castaway. [Obs.]
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         Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
         know any thing of pleasure?              --I. Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

abject \ab"ject\ ([a^]b"j[e^]kt), a. [L. abjectus, p. p. of
   abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a
   shooting forth.]
   1. Cast down; low-lying. [Obs.]
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            From the safe shore their floating carcasses
            And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
            Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.
                                                  --Milton.
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   2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject
      posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers."
      --Addison. "An abject liar." --Macaulay.
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            And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.
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   3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope;
      miserable; -- of persons.
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   4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as,
      abject poverty.
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   Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
        ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
        degraded.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

abject
    adj 1: of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low
           stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable
           treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a
           scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick" [syn: abject, low,
           low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy]
    2: most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined
       in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
    3: showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
       [syn: abject, unhopeful]
    4: showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"