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Definitions for: Abject
[adj] showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
[adj] 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"
[adj] most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
[adj] showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
Webster (1913) Definition: Ab"ject, 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.]
From the safe shore their floating carcasses And
broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and
lost lay these, covering the flood. --Milton.
2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded;
servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture,
fortune, thoughts. ``Base and abject flatterers.''
--Addison. ``An abject liar.'' --Macaulay.
And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. --Shak.
Syn: Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish;
ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible;
degraded.
Ab*ject", v. t. [From Abject, a.]
To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower;
to debase. [Obs.] --Donne.
Ab"ject, n.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a
castaway. [Obs.]
Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts,
know any thing of pleasure? --I. Taylor.
Synonyms: contemptible, hopeless, low, low-down, miserable, resigned, scummy, scurvy, submissive, unfortunate, unhopeful
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