Abject

Quick meaning: Abject is an adjective meaning Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.

Meaning

Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.

More Meanings

1. Complete; downright; utter.
2. Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
3. Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
4. (sociology, usually nominalized) Marginalized as deviant.
5. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
6. To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
7. To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.

Example Sentences

abject failure abject nonsense abject terror

By hovv much from the top of vvondrous glory, / Strongeſt of mortal men, / To lovveſt pitch of abject fortune thou art fall'n.

The wide dominion of the Franks was severed into a thousand pieces. Nothing more than a nominal dignity was left to the abject heirs of an illustrious name, Charles the Bald, and Charles the Fat, and Charles the Simple.

Do you think, my dear Mrs. James, if the Tables had been turned, if my Fortune had been as high in the World as yours, and you in my Diſtreſs and abject Condition, that I would not have climbed as high as the Monument to viſit you?

Word Forms

• abjecter
• abjectest
• abjects
• abjecting
• abjected

Synonyms for abject

Depending on context, synonyms include degraded, demiss, ignoble, vile, wretched, worthless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miserable, hopeless, contemptible, unfortunate, low-down, scummy.

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